The Federal Court has shed new light on the distinction between "recall to duty" and "overtime", which has become an increasingly vexed issue with the shift to workers performing more duties outside normal hours and their workplace.
The number of enterprise agreements terminated by the FWC has accelerated dramatically in recent years, particularly for relatively small union-negotiated deals in the construction and manufacturing sectors, according to the Department of Employment.
FWC President Iain Ross has asked a full bench to review abandonment of employment clauses in six modern awards after a recent ruling that employers must take the "additional step" of ending the employment relationship when a worker walks off the job.
The Australian Federal Police has been ordered to pay the majority of the CFMEU's legal costs for its challenge to the 2015 AFP raid on the offices of the union's construction and general division in Canberra.
The AMMA has formally asked Employment Minister Michaelia Cash to restore "common sense" to agreement-making after an FWC full bench accepted the MUA's argument that defects in bargaining notices meant it had to quash the approval of two non-union deals.
The CFMEU's mining and energy division has pledged to appeal a "shocking" FWC full bench decision that it claims would slash redundancy benefits for coal mining employees.
The FWC has accepted an employer's argument that the "paramount" importance it placed on OHS justified its sacking of a long-serving employee with an "unblemished history" who recorded more than twice the workplace blood alcohol limit after drinking four glasses of red wine the previous evening.
NRL executive's "poor attitude" not serious misconduct: FWC; Dismissed road rage employee "responsible for own fate"; Valid to sack worker warned over headbutting after further altercation
The FWC has rejected claims an Allianz manager was unfairly dismissed after threatening to touch a female colleague's vagina if she didn't stop talking during a taxi ride following a work social outing.
