The Fair Work Commission has found that the United Firefighters Union is not bargaining in good faith in pressing Victoria's Country Fire Authority to agree to minimum staffing levels in enterprise bargaining negotiations, and has ordered the union to drop the claims.
An ATO manager's conviction for indecency against a minor constituted a breach of the APS code of conduct that justified his dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
DP World is free to resume urine testing under its national drug and alcohol policy after a five-member Fair Work Commission full bench yesterday upheld its challenge to a deputy president's ruling that its enterprise agreements excluded the method.
In what the UFU has hailed as a "huge victory", the Fair Work Commission has refused to terminate two enterprise agreements covering Melbourne's firefighters, finding it would have triggered an "appreciable and unmatched shift" in bargaining power to their employer.
A Federal Court full bench has upheld a finding that the main retail award applies to delivery drivers employed by the online arm of supermarket giant Coles.
The Federal Court has fined a company almost $200,000 for underpaying its aged care workers more than $2.5m over a five year period, finding that its unlawful employment practices might have given it an unfair competitive advantage.
The Federal Court has ordered a barrister to pay an employer's costs in a failed adverse action appeal, finding that they were incurred as a result of her "poor judgment".
The Federal Circuit Court has found the sole director of a delicatessen/cafe accessorily liable in an underpayment case spanning more than 30 years and four periods of industrial law.
A long history of employee complaints and the need to send a strong message to the hair and beauty industry that "it does not pay to underpay workers" has led to a hairdressing chain being fined $70,000 for short-changing an apprentice more than $8,000.
