The NSW Industrial Court has overturned a ruling that 78 Port Kembla coal terminal workers were owed $2.5 million after signing contracts based on employer assurances they wouldn't be worse off under a replacement superannuation scheme.
A truck driver sacked for urinating outside the entrance to a Woolworths warehouse will receive around $14,000 in compensation after the Fair Work Commission ruled his employer's handling of the investigation into the incident rendered his dismissal unfair.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled that Fair Work Act provisions requiring state governments to consult with unions over proposed redundancies are unconstitutional, rejecting the AWU's attempt to distinguish a similar High Court finding.
The Fair Work Commission has refused to allow the friend of an employee who died before his unfair dismissal claim was heard to continue with the case, ruling it had no reasonable prospect of success.
In a wide-ranging judgment on federal right of entry laws, a senior FWC member has ruled that parties need to pay more than "lip service" to the requirement to agree on meeting rooms for union discussions with workers, and has warned a CFMEU employee that he needs to take "stock of his conduct".
A Supreme Court appeal bench has upheld a ruling that a local council's chief executive was not covered by an award and was therefore entitled to 12 months' notice of dismissal.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected an employer's argument that a private arbitration clause in an employment agreement restricts its ability to deal with an unfair dismissal application.
A full court of the Federal Court has upheld a finding that a pub two work colleagues visited to deal with s-xual advances one made to the other in their office across the road was a "workplace" under federal discrimination legislation.
The Federal Court has relied on a 25-year "common understanding" in the transport industry in preference to the literal wording of an award in rejecting a TWU claim for Linfox day workers to be paid crib time.
Two long-serving Qantas flight attendants who breached the airline's taxi card policy have won their jobs back this morning after the Fair Work Commission found there was no valid reason for their dismissals.
