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$600K fine for unlicensed labour supplier

A business that knowingly and repeatedly breached labour hire licensing laws has been fined more than $600,000, which is believed to be the highest in Australian labour hire law history.

RAFFWU pursuing Woolies over COVID-19 shift changes

RAFFWU says it is suing Woolworths on behalf of about 1400 night shift workers allegedly "dragged into meetings" at the height of the pandemic and made to "radically change their work hours from overnight to day or evening work", costing individuals up to $30,000 a year.

Indemnity costs after groundless jurisdictional objection

The FWC has levelled indemnity costs against an employer that claimed to be acting on FWO advice when it objected to a former employee's adverse action case on the basis that her post-ANZAC Day filing pushed it beyond the statutory deadline.

Chest infection a temporary disability: Court

A court has ordered a cafe to pay a teenage worker $7300 compensation, including $6000 for hurt and humiliation, after it took unlawful adverse action because of his temporary disability when it dismissed him for calling in sick due to a chest infection.

Chef's adverse action claim back on menu

A FIFO chef's one-day-late adverse action application can proceed after the FWC accepted that he did not realise he filed 12 blank pages in support of his claim.

Late application to proceed after IR consultant's email fail

The FWC has found an IR consultant's failure to check his emails after business hours on a Friday or the following Monday wholly to blame for a day-late unfair dismissal claim, extending time for his client to argue it unfairly retrenched her after she converted to casual employment.

Sacked wharfie's explanation not blame-shifting: FWC

Qube Ports must reinstate a stevedore who pranged a client's $70,000 Mercedes after an operations manager mistook her explanations as an attempt to excuse her behaviour or shift the blame.

Ventia seeks arbitration after 15 months of talks

The FWC has reserved its decision on the first contested intractable bargaining case to be heard by a single member, after service provider Ventia told the tribunal it should find negotiations for outsourced Defence aviation firefighting operations in Queensland have reached an impasse after 15 months of talks and more than 18 months of industrial action.

"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.