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Our case secured $430 million BHP backpayment: Union

The CFMMEU's mining and energy division is taking credit for BHP's revelation today that it will have to backpay almost 30,000 workers in its Australian operations it has shortchanged since 2010, with its share set to cost it $431 million.

Re-hearing delivers no change for sacked forex dealer

A foreign exchange dealer has come up empty-handed after he overturned his dismissal on appeal, with the FWC on re-hearing the case taking little time to reject his claim that the "punishment did not fit the crime".

Academic's 'cancel culture' win on hold

A Sydney University lecturer sacked for superimposing a swastika on a posted image of an Israeli flag has nominally won his job back, pending the result of the institution's appeal against a finding that his 2019 dismissal breached its agreement's intellectual freedom clause.

No homophobic slur by CFMMEU organiser: Court

The Federal Court has today reversed a judge's finding that a CFMMEU organiser directed a "disgusting" homophobic slur towards a construction project's safety advisor, while it also axed a personal payment order against him.

Long service ruling exposes Optus to daily fines

Optus has failed in its bid to overturn a finding that short-changing workers' long service leave entitlements when they leave the telco might count as a continuing offence under Victoria's LSL legislation, potentially leaving it to clock-up daily fines until it rectified the alleged issue.

Damages payout boosted for previously "vibrant" accountant

A court has upped from $20,000 to $90,000 the general damages payout for a veteran chief accountant subjected to age discrimination and is considering billing his former employer a further $142,000 for economic loss, after hearing he is "no longer the same man" and is unable to work.

Unconscious bias ruling upheld on appeal

Victoria's appeal court has upheld a ruling that an employer treated a manager unfavourably because of her s-x, when it ignored her repeated attempts to negotiate over-agreement pay rates, despite affording higher rates to male colleagues.

"Ostrich-like" lawyer denied second bite at case

A criminal lawyer with an "ostrich-like" attitude has failed to convince a judge to reconsider a default judgment ordering him to pay two former employees penalties, costs, long service leave and super totalling more than $70,000.

Bench slams gate on extra duties

In a decision closely examining when employees can be directed to perform extra duties, a FWC full bench has ruled that a maintenance worker could refuse to remotely monitor an automated gate at a gas supplier's facility.

Full court blows hole in states' LSL cases

A Federal Court majority has today dealt a hammer blow to NSW's and Victoria's pursuit of employers alleged to have avoided long service leave entitlements to casuals, ruling that a tribunal's reading of the Fair Work Act's LSL provision produced an "absurdity" whereby employers received "no warning" they could be held criminally liable for supposed non-payments.