The FWC has handed back MUA WA branch secretary Will Tracey's entry permit after more than a decade, finding he can "be assumed to have left behind his past propensity to engage in unlawful conduct".
A former employee of a company that restructured to offload severance obligations onto the FEG scheme has won a further boost to his payout after the AAT found a "grand chapel" deal that grandfathered more generous redundancy provisions served as the governing instrument for calculating entitlements for his first 15 years of employment.
The HR manager of a dumpling chain fined $4 million over a "deceitful and unscrupulous" payroll scam has been hit with a $100,000 penalty for her role, after the Federal Court heard a big sanction might force her to sell her share of her home.
In what stands as a forensic analysis of disciplinary process failings, a judge in a near-300-page judgment has found that a construction giant took adverse action against a senior manager when it sacked him for allegedly intimidating property owners while partying during the 2020 bushfire recovery effort.
The Mining and Energy Union's 18-member national governing body will have two positions reserved for women – up from one – after the FWC accepted "persuasive" evidence that it would make the union's leadership more representative.
A federal parliamentary inquiry will consider the implications of the "rapid uptake" of automated decision-making and machine learning on the workplace, after a request from Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
A paid agent claiming to have never been told of any complaints about its services has welcomed FWC suggestions to regulate the industry while insisting the Commission should "surgically" root out "bad actors" rather than take a shotgun approach that could raise costs for workers contesting dismissals.
A FWC full bench will tomorrow begin a three-day hearing into one of two intractable bargaining determinations involving Cleanaway sites in NSW after both Commission-assisted bargaining periods failed to resolve differences between the parties.
The Federal Court has approved a $1.3 million settlement in a class action on behalf of casual mineworkers that was significantly downgraded following the High Court's Rossato ruling, while shooting down Adero Law's bid to increase the costs carve-out.
