The High Court has refused to grant the CFMEU special leave to appeal a finding that Anglo Coal did not take adverse action when it sacked a mining union delegate who took sick leave after being denied permission to take annual leave.
The Federal Court has ruled that an Anglo Coal subsidiary breached its enterprise agreement by failing to pay employees who cashed-out personal/carer's leave the same amount as if they had worked their regular shift lengths.
Washery employees at two of Peabody Energy's Bowen Basin coal mines will experience a "small but significant reduction in their overall remuneration" after an FWC full bench upheld the mining giant's application to terminate its agreement.
An accountancy firm manager who pursued a secret plan to sell part of his employer's business to Macquarie Bank for a $5 million personal profit has failed to convince a court that he was wrongfully dismissed.
The Andrews Labor Government has brought in Victoria's Emergency Management Commissioner to help broker a peace deal in the standoff between paid and volunteer firefighters, which has spilled over into the federal election campaign.
A court has levied a fine of more than $270,000 on a company that made an employee work 180 unpaid hours as an intern, and has also imposed a $8160 fine and three-year injunction on its director, who was already bound by an enforceable undertaking.
The FWC has backed aluminium giant Alcoa's right under its new uniform policy to bar two employees at its WA alumina mines who are also AWU delegates from wearing shirts that bear the union's logo in the workplace.
A straddle driver who lost his job as a result of an automation-driven restructure at Patrick Stevedores' Port Botany container terminal has won his job back after the FWC ruled his dismissal was not a genuine redundancy.
Victoria's Country Fire Authority has "serious concerns" about a Fair Work Commission "final recommendation" that seeks to break a bargaining deadlock that threatens to become a political crisis for the Andrews Labor Government.