The FWC has backed a global company's HR processes after dismissing a senior employee's claim that she had no option but to resign when an investigation rejected her portrayal of a male colleague asking her to "get the coffees" during a client workshop as s-xual harassment.
The ASU's Together Queensland branch has quietly affiliated with the Labor Party on behalf of its 24,000-strong public sector division – at a cost of $180,000 a year – despite a requirement in its rules requiring majority support for such a move and before the FWC approved an amendment removing the obligation.
The FWC has extended time for a Swissport worker to pursue a four-minute late adverse action claim given the "significant steps" he took to dispute his sacking, including sending unanswered emails to the company's head of Asia Pacific operations, global chief people officer and head of global operations.
The FWC has directed senior representatives of supermarket giant Woolworths and the UWU to meet and seek to resolve more than 1000 disputes Australia-wide over a new productivity framework in the company's warehouses, after an individual brought his grievance with the regime to the tribunal.
A court has found a low-paid casual hairdresser's two-year restraint on poaching clients "void and unenforceable" because it is "significantly longer" than necessary to protect her former employer's legitimate business interests, taking into account the absence of compensation for the non-compete clause and the nature of client relationships.
The Minns Labor Government is introducing legislation to ensure senior local government executives are covered by an award or other IRC-approved industrial instrument, in response to anti-corruption commission findings that standard contract provisions might pose a corruption risk.
The TWU says it will "deploy significant and focussed resources" on a campaign to recruit more gig workers, as the FWC prepares to exercise its new powers to set minimum standards in that sector and in road transport.
The FWC has rejected an employer's claim that a company secretary's "time limited" contract merely expired, finding it gave her no choice but to give up her permanent role by making an offer "infected with misrepresentation, misleading conduct and duress".
Coles says it will provide undertakings in a bid to secure approval of its proposed new four-year national supermarkets agreement that covers about 100,000 supermarket employees, after a FWC full bench queried the rules for re-introduced split shift arrangements.
Businesses should consider running randomised trials to inform evidence-based policymaking in the workplace and improve productivity, Assistant employment minister Andrew Leigh has told a HR leadership conference in Sydney.
