A senior FWC member has granted unions a protected action ballot period of eight working days despite an employer's claim his decision in Nilsen established a 10-day minimum for electronic voting, and its concerns a shorter timeframe will hamper preparations for the s448A compulsory conference.
A tribunal has refused to extend time for a worker's three-months-late FEG claim but expressed its "sympathy" for the COVID-19 "chaos" and her employer's delayed notification of her entitlements that led to her late application.
A worker has failed to convince the FWC that permitting "billion-dollar company" Rio Tinto to engage an external lawyer to defend a general protections claim would unfairly disadvantage him.
The Minns Labor Government will consider introducing an industrial manslaughter offence carrying fines of up to $18 million and lengthy prison sentences as part of a broader shake-up of NSW workplace safety laws.
Queensland's departing police commissioner failed to properly consider the human rights implications of two ultimately unlawful vaccination mandates issued at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Supreme Court review has found.
The FWC has published a combined timetable of key commencement dates for the now-assented Closing Loopholes 2 changes and its predecessor legislation, while DEWR is still working to update its suite of backgrounders to reflect the most recent amendments.
A lawyer has been fined $2400 and her eponymous firm a further $12,000 after a judge highlighted her "unreasoned and unreasonable" belief that the FWO wrongly concluded that it underpaid a legal secretary.
Lawyers for media host and writer Antoinette Lattouf have taken her high-profile departure from the ABC to the Federal Court, alleging she was unlawfully sacked in breach of the ABC's enterprise agreement.
The IEU is envisioning that a landmark supported bargaining deal for early childhood workers will secure a "substantial" pay rise and conditions improvements that will be extended nationally, after unions and employers met with Federal Government representatives on Friday.
