Victoria's Labour Hire Authority is prosecuting a labour hire company for allegedly sourcing farm workers through unlicensed suppliers, as part of a crackdown on the horticulture and farm sectors.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a Big W employee sacked for colluding with his mother to steal a $400 hard drive, and then fabricating "a false and misleading story in an attempt to cover up his behaviour".
The FSU is urging members at NAB to accept a revised "benchmark" agreement offer that will lift their pay by as much as 17.5% and boost the ability to work from home, but the union says the improvements are not enough for it to call off Federal Court action over excessive hours.
In finding a DoorDash food delivery driver is an independent contractor, the FWC has held that the "issues of control, delegation and equipment" are almost identical to that in a landmark ruling involving the now-defunct Deliveroo platform.
A FWC full bench has extended a mango farm's zombie agreement for one more picking season to fulfil the seasonal worker program's requirement that a single industrial instrument apply for the duration of employment, while it has found the question of whether employees are better off overall is not an "express consideration".
The FWC has taken the UWU to task over a "lack of willingness" to honour an agreement to stay in a designated area of a Woolworths distribution centre canteen after complaints from workers, rejecting assertions the union did not agree to continue the arrangement after a trial.
The SDA has hit a major hurdle in its efforts to expand upon an underpayments court victory, the FWC refusing to order Aldi to provide six years of rosters, pay records and timesheets for almost 13,000 employees the union claims might have been shortchanged for work performed outside their shifts.
The FWC has given coal miner Peabody until Thursday to respond to its suggestion that it adopt "somewhat more neutrally worded" clauses in a proposed agreement that says workers are "required" to work on public holidays.
A FWC full bench has spelled out that it will not extend the term of zombie Australian Workplace Agreements due to be axed on December 7 just because it is sought by both the employer and workers.
