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Qantas has questioned whether there could ever be an instance where employers can lawfully outsource work if the High Court rejects its challenge to a ruling that it took adverse action against 2000 former ground crew employees when it shunned a TWU in-house tender in favour of an external bid.

A judge has been forced to pick apart a full court's remittal order before determining that he must rehear a worker's adverse action case afresh rather than merely considering "updated" evidence.

The AWU has warned that Woodside's HR team faces a "learning curve" after the union yesterday won a hard-fought majority support determination forcing the energy giant to the negotiating table with its offshore platform employees for the first time in more than three decades.

A couple who unsuccessfully sued Senator Jacqui Lambie for allegedly unlawfully sacking them in 2017 has been ordered to pay almost $100,000 in costs to the Federal Government after a judge found numerous aspects of their case "unreasonable".

A big employer's failure to give union representatives a "heads up" that it would impose a vaccination mandate did not necessarily render its subsequent dismissal of 25 workers unfair, the FWC has found.

Senior FWC member shifts to court; Respect@Work Act receives Royal Assent; Labor to scrap AAT; and FWC changes Annual Wage Review timetable, revises refund policy.

A solicitor's "inexcusable" allegations of corruption, racism and bias against a FWC member put him at risk of being jailed, the tribunal has warned.

A leading IR academic says a Federal Court ruling that takes a restrictive view of union rights to enter workplaces for discussions is "deeply concerning" and demonstrates a need for Parliament to consider new amendments and provide better guidance on interpretation.

A judge has drawn a firm distinction between employment and commercial class actions in slashing almost $2 million from a litigation funder's share of a $20 million settlement resolving "sham contracting" allegations.

A court has fined the director of a Japanese restaurant almost $25,000 after finding that he "reverse engineered" pay records provided to the FWO and asked a shortchanged employee not to "sell me out".