In the wake of a court imposing a fine of more than $200,000 on two companies and their directors that underpaid five overseas workers $150,000, the FWO says it is "increasingly concerned" about migrant employers exploiting workers "from within their own ethnic communities".
The FWC has reinstated four workers after finding they were not "genuinely redundant" and that their employer took an "unduly hasty and largely tokenistic" approach to meeting its consultation and redeployment obligations.
CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka has threatened to withdraw support for the Andrews Labor State Government in protest at ministers "promoting and supporting" major construction company Grocon.
A tip-off from the Fair Work Ombudsman has led to the prosecution of a former company director for alleged breaches of the corporations law when he sought to deregister an entity that owed the Federal Government more than $50,000 in penalties for unpaid employee entitlements.
The FWC has reinstated a Metro Trains Melbourne station officer after finding no justification for her sacking over fraudulent transactions on the Myki smartcard ticketing system.
An IT specialist who defected to a competing consultancy to procure a higher-paid position within Queensland's Department of Health has been blocked from using payroll software for the department for a year, after his former employer enforced the restraint clause in his employment contract.
The Federal Court has shed new light on the distinction between "recall to duty" and "overtime", which has become an increasingly vexed issue with the shift to workers performing more duties outside normal hours and their workplace.
The number of enterprise agreements terminated by the FWC has accelerated dramatically in recent years, particularly for relatively small union-negotiated deals in the construction and manufacturing sectors, according to the Department of Employment.
FWC President Iain Ross has asked a full bench to review abandonment of employment clauses in six modern awards after a recent ruling that employers must take the "additional step" of ending the employment relationship when a worker walks off the job.
