The Fair Work Commission has no choice but to make an order requiring WorkPac to pay on-hire mineworkers the same pay rates as their directly employed counterparts at a host site, the Mining and Energy Union is arguing in the first 'same job same pay' application. read more
An on-hire employee who claimed he was left "a long time without answers or a job" after a placement ended was not dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. read more
A commission has rejected a claim for accrued annual leave from a group of on-hire oil and gas workers, in a case with wider ramifications for fly-in-fly-out employees on rotating rosters. read more
It was "disingenuous" of Adecco to claim it didn't dismiss an on-hire worker, after it removed her from a host site due to misconduct, then made no attempt to find her other work, the Fair Work Commission has ruled. read more
In an important case for the recruitment industry, Programmed has won a long-running dispute over its liability to pay long service leave to an on-hired worker, who became a Randstad employee after an account changed hands. read more
