Two CFMEU officials, including one posing as croc-hunter Steve Irwin during a construction site visit, are no longer personally liable for $47,000 in fines, after a full Federal Court found the FWBC "pursued" them "under an inappropriate statutory regime".
A Coles Supermarkets employee who is seeking to overturn the approval of the retailer's enterprise agreement told a full bench in Melbourne this week that letting the agreement stand would amount to saying, "we've got it wrong, but let us get away with it".
An FWC full bench has thrown out a senior employee's unfair dismissal claim, ruling his life insurance premium, paid by his employer, counted towards his annual income and pushed his earnings beyond the high-income threshold.
In a crucial ruling for the Ichthys LNG project, an FWC full bench has ruled today that an electrical contracting company is entitled to give its fly-in, fly-out employees notice of retrenchment immediately before a rest and recreation period.
Unreasonable to expect in-house representative to perform dual role; Company with one local employee not a small business; and Full bench remits unfair dismissal case for casual wrongly deemed permanent.
A mineworker stood down by a Rio Tinto subsidiary after he won more than $600,000 in damages for serious injuries sustained at work has won an adverse action claim in the Federal Court.
An FWC full bench has found a presidential member rightly refused a CFMEU request that he recuse himself over undisclosed ex parte communications with a company's legal representative, even though his actions arguably did not satisfy requirements for openness and transparency.
A Federal Court full bench will tomorrow morning hear a challenge by industry groups to the now-stayed RSRT decision to proceed with the contractor driver minimum payments road safety remuneration order.
The FWC has ordered Immigration and Border Force employees at international airports to return to work today after making an interim decision to suspend protected action.
The FWC has ordered the ATO to reinstate a senior officer dismissed for being a "square peg" that wouldn't fit into a round hole after he was unable to perform the duties of a new role.