A FWC full bench has lashed energy giant Woodside for its "impertinent" suggestion that a senior tribunal member should have supplied evidence that directions she issued while considering an AWU majority support bid, came from a Commission template.
A worker who claims FWC President Iain Ross admitted to having a problem with commissioners' "colonial attitude" has lost his Federal Court bid to sue the tribunal for racial discrimination.
A FWC full bench has taken a union and employer to task for failing to notify it to resume hearing the former's challenge to a contentious hospitality deal under which employees can work "voluntary" additional hours without penalties.
A Federal Court majority has slashed by more than 65% penalties imposed on a government-owned organisation for breaching agreement obligations, finding them "manifestly excessive".
An appeal court has rejected a former Employsure senior manager's challenge to an injunction stopping him from using knowledge acquired at the IR advisory business with a competitor, but a colleague "induced" to follow him has overturned his own restraint.
The NTEU is challenging a FWC decision to knock out the bulk of its "ambiguous" questions in a Curtin University protected action ballot, including proposed bans on responding to phone calls and emails, working outside of ordinary hours or attending work events.
The CFMMEU's mining division has asked the FWC to intervene after almost two years of fruitless bargaining for enterprise agreements covering internal labour hire companies run by BHP's Operations Services.
A foreign exchange dealer sacked after unwittingly becoming entangled in a $23,000 fraud will have his unfair dismissal case reheard after a FWC bench agreed a tribunal member found him in "serious breach" of a company policy that did not exist.
A tribunal member, at the urging of a union, placed too much emphasis on employer Ausgrid's investigation rather than the conduct of workers accused of timesheet fraud, a FWC full bench has ruled.
A FWC member wrongly concluded that he lacked the power to hear the case of a university employee sacked for refusing to comply with COVID-19 vaccination directions, a full bench has found.
