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New Qantas chair gets union tick of approval

The TWU has offered Qantas a rare endorsement after the airline today announced former Toll chair and Asciano chief executive John Mullen as its next chair, describing the appointment as offering a "glimmer of hope" that the employer-employee relationship could be reset at the national carrier.

Worker allegedly labelled "f-ggot" and "princess" fails to limit costs

A worker who is accusing his employer of sacking him after he complained about his co-workers' alleged discriminatory behaviour - included calling him a "skippy poofter" and grabbing his genitalia - has failed to cap his potential maximum court costs at $30,000.

Bench set to consider Cleanaway workplace determination

A FWC full bench is set to hear the TWU and waste giant Cleanaway on a workplace determination for the company's Erskine Park site in April, after a 14-day post-IBD negotiating period met expectations that it wouldn't lead to agreement.

Court holds accountants to account for withholding records

An accountancy firm and its principal must pay penalties totalling almost $70,000 for failing to comply with FWO notices to produce documents linked to to its client's "grossly inadequate" employee record-keeping.

Scope questions torpedo Coles PABO bid

RAFFWU will challenge the rejection of a PABO bid targeting Coles supermarkets and Liquorland outlets after the FWC found it failed to genuinely bargain on behalf of salaried managers it wants to include in a multi-employer deal.

Iron ore supply threat averted as BHP buckles on guaranteed rises

BHP iron ore train drivers in the Pilbara have called off tomorrow's planned 24-hour strike, after reaching what the MEU says is an "industry-leading" in-principle enterprise deal that provides a guaranteed across-the-board 20% pay rise over four years and $40,000 in retention payments.

FWC calls time on 24-year-old deal

The FSU has failed to extend the life of an agreement made at the dawn of the century while it pursues a majority support determination forcing AMP to the bargaining table.

FWC offers no remedy for CSL's bargaining complaints

Biotechnology giant CSL has failed to win rare bargaining orders sought against two maintenance unions after the FWC dismissed a HR manager's "flimsy" evidence that contractors had been intimidated by a picket.

Palmer ordered to pay $40,000 to worker ousted in mass sacking

A Clive Palmer-owned business must pay a worker almost $40,000 for dismissing him by email along with 125 other employees, claiming he failed to work his hours amid site-wide fraud, theft and dishonesty,, and then asking him to re-apply for his job 20 minutes later.

Procedural fairness failures make harassment sacking unfair

A football club's "deficient" investigation and lack of procedural fairness rendered unfair its sacking of a worker for spreading "false and degrading s-xualised rumours" in the workplace, the FWC has found.