A leading lawyer and academic has called for an overhaul of workplace bullying laws to extend cover to social media accessed at home and give the FWC power to award compensation.
The RTBU is targeting a labour hire company's training school and its top executives with a backpayment claim for unremunerated "on-the-job" learning, potentially covering hundreds of past and present participants that the union characterises as "employees".
An Aboriginal corporation has been ordered to pay total compensation of $67,503 to three cultural heritage field officers sacked after failing to prove ancestral connections, including $15,000 in general damages for "emotional upset".
As the FSU and Travel Money Oz head to conciliation next Thursday over claims that the currency exchange business owes workers for unpaid overtime including attendance at "buzz nights", the parties are already at loggerheads over award coverage.
A court has admitted the affidavit of an aircraft engineer who cannot be cross-examined due to Alzheimer's, giving him a second shot at pursuing more than $300,000 in entitlements allegedly accrued while misclassified as a contractor.
A business owner has been hit with a record $125,000 penalty over his company's failure to pay FWC-awarded compensation to an unfairly sacked former employee.
The FWC has questioned the business model of a large restaurant employer that relied on mass sponsorship of overseas workers, finding it unfairly dismissed a 457-visa holder after issuing multiple "doomsday" emails to its workforce.
A restaurant that required a chef to work more than 20 unpaid hours a week and summarily sacked him when he sought to pare it back and take leave was "blissfully unaware" of its award obligations, the FWC has found.
In an instructive case on managing conflicts of interest, the FWC has found a money management company had a valid reason to sack a budget specialist who failed to disclose his casino visit to stop a client and friend from blowing his inheritance, but an HR manager's actions rendered it harsh.
