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The FWC has ordered indemnity costs against an employee who recklessly rejected offers of up to six months wages to settle his "hopeless" unfair dismissal claim.

Employers face rejection of their enterprise deals if they rely on agreement-making information on the FWC's website, according to IR practitioners.

Commission stamps out postie's unfair dismissal claim; Commission swoops on decision to sack decorated former army pilot; Compensation icing on cake for employee sacked over Facebook comments; Property manager unfairly sacked for speaking out about workload.

The Turnbull Government is hedging on whether it will release the report on Fair Work Commission Vice President Michael Lawler now that he has resigned from the tribunal.

A newly-approved variation to fast food giant McDonald's enterprise agreement has secured gains for home delivery drivers, including their own classification, longer breaks and car insurance, according to SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer.

Notices to employees that allegedly misrepresented union support for a proposed enterprise agreement that had the "potential to mislead" and could be characterised as "unfair" did not undermine the collective bargaining process, a FWC full bench has ruled.

Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has confirmed this afternoon that FWC Vice President Michael Lawler has resigned.

The FWC has refused to issue an anti-bullying order, finding there was no longer any risk because the alleged perpetrators had since resigned.

The FWC has stymied a bid by an employer on a major resources project to win approval for its enterprise agreement, ruling its 36 casual workers were not eligible to vote because they weren't "employed at the time" when they voted.

The Federal Circuit Court has warned compliance order recipients that they should have "no misapprehension about their obligations to comply" after fining an employer that underpaid workers $9,000 on top of the original penalty. Meanwhile, the regulator is pursuing an accountancy firm that was allegedly involved in an employer's underpayments