A FWC presidential member has issued a worker a "stern rebuke" for failing to prosecute or discontinue an unmeritorious unfair dismissal claim and complaining that the "worst thing about his job" was that his colleagues "spoke Chinese all day long".
A FWC full bench has slammed a public health provider's HR team for its "inappropriate" response to queries about late payment of 'nauseous work' and education allowances for an estimated 220 employees, concluding that the delay amounted to an underpayment capable of attracting a penalty.
FWC Vice President Joe Catanzariti has foreshadowed his retirement in early June, a departure that will enable the Albanese Labor Government to further reshape the upper echelons of the tribunal.
Workers in highly-feminised industries should receive pay rises of at least 9% in this year's annual wage review to stay in step with Fair Work Act changes to foster gender equity, the ACTU will tell the FWC's minimum wage panel.
An employer had insufficient evidence to support its sacking of a manager who consumed up to 15 standard drinks the day and evening before his 7am start, the FWC has ruled.
The US Federal Trade Commission has published a final rule change that imposes a nationwide ban on non-compete clauses, adding international impetus to the growing push by the Albanese Government to end them here.
A worker has told the High Court that limitations on seeking damages for disciplinary and dismissal processes that result in psychiatric injury are "incoherent and irrational", in a case with the potential to create a new duty of care for employers.
The UFU's aviation branch has welcomed an in-principle agreement three-year for airport firefighters that uses allowances, job classification upgrades and higher overtime rates to improve on the Federal Government's public sector pay cap of 11.2% over three years.
The Ai Group has told a Senate inquiry that the jobs transition plan in the Net Zero Bill currently before parliament "treads on very sensitive ground" when set against the established treatment of redundancies in Australia's IR framework.
The FWC's annual wage review will have to deliver a rise in the federal minimum wage of at least 3.6% to meet the Federal Government's push for an inflation-matching pay rise, following the release of the latest ABS cost-of-living data.
