Abandonment of employment clauses have been removed from six modern awards in the wake of an FWC full bench ruling that employers must take the "additional step" of ending the employment relationship when a worker walks off the job.
The legislative tension between state and federal union rules has been highlighted after a tribunal dismissed an expelled official's bid for reinstatement on the basis that it lacked the jurisdiction to give orders or directions to a national body.
In a landmark ruling, the FWC has held that Carter Holt Harvey employees did not accrue annual or long service leave during a 74-day lockout last year.
RAFFWU says it will encourage members to vote against a new Coles deal in part because it fails to allay concerns that it will create a two-tiered wage system, while in a claim ahead of Woolworths bargaining it is seeking to make up the difference that would have been earned under the award since 2012.
A geographically-distinct union has been granted scope orders for cleaners at a remote detention centre after the FWC determined the costs involved for bargaining representatives to attend distant meetings were prohibitive.
An FWC full bench has upbraided a tribunal member for suppressing the name of a sexual harassment complainant without proper consultation, but has upheld the sacking of a manager for the "hostile" and "derogatory" comments he directed at the trainee.
The Federal Court will consider whether a series of NTEU social media posts, campaign materials and protests constitute "coercive acts" that are disproportionate to any legitimate interests the union might have had in wanting to stop Murdoch University from terminating its 2014 agreement.
A senior FWC member has upheld the sacking of an underground mineworker who tested positive for THC and continued to have elevated levels of the drug in his system 22 days later, finding it the "only course of action open" to the employer.
The Federal Court has accepted that "future whistleblowers" might be deterred if it releases all Registered Organisations Commission documents relating to last year's raids on the AWU by the Australian Federal Police.
The ASU is appealing a finding that the ATO can require employees to 'hot desk' regardless of whether they perform field work, the union arguing it wouldn't have endorsed the 2017 agreement if it had been made aware of the agency's intention.
