The FWC has allowed the Flight Attendants' Association to jettison plans to merge its two divisions, while a former secretary might face penalties after admitting he failed to provide budgets from 2006 to 2012.
A worker who partly blamed his two-years late unfair dismissal claim on a police investigation into alleged death threats he made after his sacking has failed to win an extension of time.
The FWC's minimum wage panel has decided against holding a preliminary hearing to consider new research on the budget required to sustain a healthy lifestyle, after the proposal only won support from Catholic employers.
The TWU is seeking to terminate the enterprise agreement for aviation services company Aerocare, applying a legal strategy has been mostly used by employers.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus is today kicking off a national "change the rules" campaign that aims to build support for major changes to the Fair Work Act, including restoration of the industrial tribunal's power to arbitrate disputes.
A Federal Court class action against Chubb Insurance Australia Limited for alleged failing to pay minimum rates, overtime and penalties has been discontinued after the lawyers for the employees failed to secure litigation funding.
The Fair Work Commission is applying the Better Off Overall Test is an "unworkable manner" and uncertainty in the wake of the Coles agreement termination ruling is bringing bargaining to a halt, according to the Australian Industry Group.
The FWC has granted the CFMEU standing as an intervener to scrutinise whether an agreement passes the better off overall test, despite an employer's objections that it has no members affected, has a commercial interest in opposing deals and is a generally disreputable organisation.
A court has reserved judgment on an obese security officer's adverse action claim in which he accuses his employer of transferring him to a position he physically could not perform in another city and then sacking him to stop him after he challenged a proposed enterprise agreement.
The High Court has granted a worker special leave to appeal a ruling that her employer did not have a duty to protect her from psychological damage caused by its investigation of a workplace assault.
