FIFO workers employed on a remote LNG project a decade ago stand to split more than $850,000 after pursuing payment for the time it took to be bussed from their crib hut to a security gate at the end of each shift.
The clothing company behind the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands has been ordered to pay a former employee almost $25,000 in compensation and damages after failing to persuade a judge it didn't sack her for complaining about her workload, "unrealistic" deadlines and a colleague's behaviour.
A Serco prison dog handler's refusal to cooperate with a HR manager he accused of conducting a fishing expedition, covertly recording their interview and claiming in front of an inmate that he had evidence to "crumble the empire" warranted his summary dismissal, the FWC has held.
Employsure has rejected a sales worker's claims that it subjected him to discrimination, bullying and coercion after he applied for parental leave and challenged a claimed unilateral downgrading of employees' conditions, and says it does not know how a record he kept of his treatment came to be destroyed.
Stevedoring giant Qube has failed to overturn a ruling that it should have slashed the minimum number of hours salaried dockworkers needed to work in a year after withholding their pay over 11 weeks of protected industrial action.
Menulog has followed the lead of DoorDash and Uber in signing a charter with the TWU supporting federally legislated minimum rights and a disputes mechanism for gig delivery workers, but now also supports the new Minns NSW Labor Government's ambition to introduce state-based legislation.
Two veteran truck drivers held by the High Court to be contractors rather than employees have today lost a cross-appeal seeking to establish an entitlement to decades of superannuation on the basis that they fell within the wider meaning of employee in the Super Guarantee Act.
A FWC member has expressed amazement that an employer "pinned" alleged timesheet fraud on an employee when in fact his former manager performed the work.