Queensland employers facing millions of dollars in backpay claims are calling on the Federal Court to quash an FWC full bench decision that apprentices' pay should be measured against the more generous federal award rather than the state award when conducting the BOOT.
A court has rejected an employee's claim that his former employer breached disability discrimination legislation when it failed to offer redundancy or redeploy him after he sustained an injury at work.
The FWC has issued an interim anti-bullying order restraining the co-owner of a tyre business and his employee nephew from communicating with or being within 10 metres of each other, noting that a separate court order for the nephew not to commit "family violence" against his uncle had done little to improve a combative workplace atmosphere.
A government department's failure to establish sufficient distance from an 'independent' appeal panel has seen a court reject its claim for legal professional privilege over advice disclosed to an employee.
The Federal Court has ordered former HSU national secretary and ex-Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson's employer – a company allegedly run by his wife – to make fortnightly deductions for the payment of $175,550 in legal costs owed to the FWC.
A full Federal Court has found a CFMEU official called onto a Victorian construction site to assist a health and safety representative is not protected by the state's OHS laws and should have had a federal entry permit.
A growing number of professions are running unlawful internship programs that prey on vulnerable young workers, according to a leading employment lawyer.
A security company must provide United Voice with internal correspondence about its practice of engaging contractors and employees, as the union pursues it for allegedly employing two embassy guards on sham contracts and sacking them when they refused to waive legal rights.
Childcare workers reignite pay campaign; Ex-union leader Maitland sentenced this week; ABCC Security of Payments working group announced; Essays explore evolution and future of labour law.
NSW's Berejiklian Government has been forced to discontinue its Supreme Court action against the RTBU for last week's 24-hour wildcat bus strike because it pursued the wrong branch of the union.
