After more than 70 years of providing IR services to Victorian farming employers, the Victorian Farmers Federation Industrial Association has been wound up.
A worker who is accusing his employer of sacking him after he complained about his co-workers' alleged discriminatory behaviour - included calling him a "skippy poofter" and grabbing his genitalia - has failed to cap his potential maximum court costs at $30,000.
The FWC has granted an AWU organiser an entry permit because his industrial law transgressions as a CFMEU official occurred more than 12 years ago and his new union has given him what he regards as a lawful and reasonable direction to comply with entry rules.
A FWC full bench is set to hear the TWU and waste giant Cleanaway on a workplace determination for the company's Erskine Park site in April, after a 14-day post-IBD negotiating period met expectations that it wouldn't lead to agreement.
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.
