An employee was found to have been constructively dismissed after her employer unreasonably refused to grant her request for part-time work upon returning from maternity leave.
The relevant enterprise agreement entitled a returning employee to work part-time until her c...
A recent case of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has provided guidance on how to calculate the statutory entitlement to paid personal leave/carer’s leave for shiftworkers (Mondelez Australia Pty Ltd).
The issue arose in the context of an application to approve an enterpr...
A Queensland-based tour operator has been sentenced to 12 month imprisonment and fined over $84,000 in the first contempt of court case brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO).
The tour operator contravened freezing orders by transferring funds from the company’s accou...
