The Ai Group has expressed "significant" concern about ASIC advice that companies in the wake of the Rossato ruling must in their financial reporting provide for any leave, redundancy and public holiday pay prospectively owed to past and present regular casuals.
A former Qantas cabin crew manager seeking millions in damages over alleged historic sexual discrimination and harassment has been refused leave to separately pursue Maurice Blackburn and a former principal over their roles in a settlement reached with the airline in 2008.
In an instructive decision on when employers should communicate major job-cutting proposals to workers, the FWC has endorsed Deakin University's timing but told it to engage at an institution-wide level after finding its 15-area carve-up left "no opportunity" for meaningful consultation.
The Federal Court has opted to assign to a referee consideration of two stevedores' "bewildering", multi-million-dollar compensation claim following unlawful bans by the CFMMEU's maritime division in 2017.
The ABCC has enjoyed another mixed result in its campaign to bring the CFMMEU to heel, a Federal Court judge agreeing to impose personal payment orders against three officials involved in picketing a building site but rejecting argument that the union's past record should necessarily attract maximum penalties.
The FWC has dismissed an ALAEA dispute application after finding budget airline Regional Express did not discipline an engineer whose certification remains suspended after his overly thorough defect check made it ground an aircraft.
Self-employed people and employers in Victoria who fail to notify WorkSafe about positive COVID-19 tests or confirmed coronavirus cases attending workplaces in the infectious period now face a fine of up to $39,652 for individuals and $198,264 for a body corporate.
Talks brokered by the FWC last night have led the parties to a COVID-19 dispute agreeing to "fully support" the findings from an industrial site visit by an occupational physician this morning.
A senior FWC member has called on the Fair Work Ombudsman to review the advice it dispenses after observing that it might have "unwittingly misinformed" a worker about her standing to contest a dismissal.
A senior FWC member has delivered a withering assessment of a large employer's HR practises in handling the resignation of a worker told by a trainer he wasn't wanted because he was "black".
