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"Sporadic" web browsing doesn't justify sacking: FWC

An intellectual property firm fumbled an employee's summary dismissal when it switched from highlighting his deficient performance and conduct to "dishonesty" over time spent browsing the internet "for items of personal interest", the FWC has found.

FWC brokers deal to end decade-long Esso dispute

After chairing negotiations between resources giant Esso and the AWU, long-serving FWC member Bernie Riordan has today issued a recommendation that the company provide a 22% pay rise over almost four years to end a decade-long deadlock for its Bass Strait platform operators and that in return the workforce move to a new roster.

Pre-Christmas pay rise under APS deal

The CPSU is recommending the Albanese Government's "bolstered" final pay offer to its members, after winning an additional lump sum payment that brings the first year's 4% increase forward by 12 weeks.

Continuing bullying a "failure of leadership": FWC

Former Toll subsidiary Team Global Express has avoided anti-bullying orders through the resignation of a perpetrator and taking significant measures to remove the risk of further substandard conduct, but the FWC has called on it to address a "failure of local leadership".

"Pause" for BHP Iron Ore protected action

Train drivers delivering iron ore to export ports from BHP's Pilbara mines will "pause" the protected bans due to start tomorrow as "a gesture of good faith" ahead of the company preparing to put a revised bargaining offer to a ballot.

BHP changed housing regime to axe workers' tenancy rights: Bench

A FWC full bench has upheld a ruling that BHP must continue to deduct a $60 weekly housing subsidy from remote mineworkers' pay, saying that the company halted the deductions to remove tenancy rights, rather than as an "act of gratuitous generosity".

FSU pushes back against ANZ, RBA

ANZ's plan to "force" workers to return to the office for half of the working week is "short-sighted", "antiquated" and "punitive", according to the Finance Sector Union, which is also urging members at the RBA to reject a second unilateral bargaining offer.

SDA members carved-out from RAFFWU-backed class action

Shine Lawyers says the exclusion of thousands of SDA members from its McDonald's class action will "inform future interplay" between union and non-union representative proceedings, while a full court ruling has set a "powerful precedent" for using collective action to protect workers' rights.

DEWR fails in High Court bid to recoup FEG funds

The High Court has this afternoon declined to hear DEWR's challenge to a ruling that limits funds available to pay employee entitlements when a company goes under.