The FWC has upheld the "procedurally inadequate" sacking of a chef who bit and slapped colleagues but has reproached his employer for failing to act sooner to curb his conduct, finding it unacceptable even where consensual and unable to be justified as "horseplay or friendly banter".
The lobby group representing Australia's mining goliaths says the last-minute Senate deal to pass slabs of the Closing Loopholes legislation amounts to the Albanese Government declaring "war" on the resources sector and the national economy.
The Senate has today passed a substantial part of the Albanese Government's Closing Loopholes Bill after agreeing to a deal with key crossbench senators Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock.
An employer seeking to be covered by an existing agreement could potentially "operate in a better way" if a clause granting five days leave in return for working on three public holidays is removed, but the FWC has found the change would deny employees the chance to use the entitlement as a bargaining chip.
A senior FWC member should have considered a worker's "genuine belief" that he lodged his general protections claim on time, even though he had in fact filed a blank unfair dismissal form, a full bench has held in tackling a novel question about when an application is made.
The MUA says that progress has been made during the first two days of a scheduled six straight days of talks with container terminal operator DP World, in a bid to break deadlocked negotiations for a new enterprise agreement.
Wage Inspectorate Victoria has dropped landmark criminal proceedings for alleged wage theft against a former restaurant and its owner, which has led to a delay and uncertainty in related High Court proceedings.
A business that knowingly and repeatedly breached labour hire licensing laws has been fined more than $600,000, which is believed to be the highest in Australian labour hire law history.
