The Federal Court has refused to restrain the United Workers Union from dismissing two organisers who claim it subjected them to unlawful adverse action, finding the union's evidence "all-but-overwhelming".
The president of a nursing "red union" faces the sack from her hospital job after failing to persuade an appeal court that unauthorised media comments fell under protected industrial activity.
A court has ordered an employer to pay more than $200,000 in compensation and penalties for its "deliberate" sacking of two delegates, finding that the dismissals signalled to other employees that engaging with unions could have "serious consequences".
The SDA is gearing up to take further action against McDonald's fast food outlets after a settlement in which a franchisee coughed up $275,000 and confessed to waging a union-busting campaign and pressuring part-timers to become casuals, despite denying it in court documents.
The Federal Court will consider whether to fine BHP Coal and order compensation after finding it took unlawful adverse action by excluding a Workpac labour hire worker because he exercised his workplace rights, including by complaining about allegedly unsafe practices.
The FWC has ordered a worker's reinstatement and criticised his employer for its "severely flawed" dismissal process after it used a traffic violation as a "golden opportunity" to dismiss him for riling management by engaging in "covert" and "unlawful" industrial action.
A tribunal has thrown out a supermarket worker's discrimination case against the SDA, finding it an abuse of process and a relitigation of a matter that first surfaced in 2017.
Qantas has failed to overturn a Federal Court adverse action finding over its shunning of a TWU in-house bid when the airline decided to outsource the work of 2000 ground-handlers.
Casino Canberra has failed to knock out orders to pay damages for discriminating against a union delegate who spoke to media or legal costs after a tribunal found its in-house lawyer had trouble separating his roles as its legal representative and sole witness.
Qantas did not have any "witching hour" deadline for pushing ahead with a plan to outsource up to 2000 ground crew jobs, a full Federal Court heard today.