A Clive Palmer-owned business has failed to prove that a worker it dismissed via email along with 125 other employees engaged in petty cash fraud and time theft, and must pay her 16 weeks salary.
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.
Closing Loopholes 2 provisions that substantially increase penalties for breaching the Fair Work Act should prompt employers to consider boosting their investment in payroll systems and checking compliance, Adelaide University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart says.
Researchers say HR managers should be educated on the use of automated management and monitoring tools as tech companies are using "the language of espionage" to promote them and construct an antagonistic relationship with workers.
FWC President Adam Hatcher is seeking feedback on revised procedural rules for the tribunal, including updates to improve usability and reflect legislative changes, ahead of the sunsetting of the current decade-old rules.
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.
The Federal Court has fined the Commonwealth Bank group a record $10.3 million over about $16 million in admitted underpayments to more than 7400 employees, citing the need to deter other large employers and especially those in financial services.
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.
AWU members employed at Esso's Bass Strait operations have voted up an enterprise agreement that delivers pay rises of 22% after the FWC brokered a resolution to a decade-long dispute that went all the way to the High Court.