An aviation engineer sacked for driving an unregistered work vehicle on a public road has been reinstated, after the Fair Work Commission found his actions were driven by hunger rather than disregard for safety protocols.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal has finalised its online calculator to help supply chain participants accurately determine minimum payments under its first remuneration order, which takes effect in a matter of weeks.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker who breached one of his employer's "golden rules" by operating a forklift while a customer was in the exclusion zone. Meanwhile, an FWC full bench has rejected a worker's appeal against a drug-related dismissal.
The summary dismissal of a worker who tested positive for drugs lacked procedural fairness, but this was outweighed by the employer's need to ensure a safe workplace, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer has unsuccessfully applied for its fight against an improvement notice to be elevated to a full Federal Court to clarify rules on revoking such notices in the WHS Act and other safety laws.
The head of the Fair Work Commission's anti-bullying panel has flagged the possibility of ordering employers to restore personal leave days to workers who have taken time off work because of bullying and harassment.
A prohibition notice issued to an employer required "a practice in excess of industry standards" and related to an "extremely low" health and safety risk, a commission has found in revoking the notice.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has, in quashing an earlier decision, found an employer was entitled to consider a worker's poor safety record when it sacked him for failing a blood alcohol test.
The Federal Government could be in breach of work health and safety laws if it responds to yesterday's High Court decision on asylum seekers by sending more children to offshore processing centres, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA).
