A beauty therapy salon unlawfully discriminated against a pregnant worker when it made her redundant after unilaterally changing her employment status from full-time to part-time, a tribunal has found.
In an important ruling, FWA has ruled that an Xstrata subsidiary's dismissal of 10 mineworkers wasn't a genuine redundancy, because it still required their jobs to be performed.
A Melbourne-based technology company has won injunctions against two former senior employees to prevent them using confidential product information to help launch their own business, but the Federal Court has rejected its bid for damages to compensate it for lost business opportunities.
Fair Work Australia has ordered Lion Nathan subsidiary Boag's Brewing to reinstate a worker it dismissed after wrongly deciding he was unable to perform the inherent requirements of his job based on a consultant's flawed assessment.
Fair Work Australia has found, in an unfair dismissal ruling, that it is "beyond belief" that a major company's HR manager notified her superiors that there was no basis to a sales manager's claims that he was being bullied and harassed, despite failing to conduct an investigation.
Hours worked across the economy continued to fall in the September quarter, while productivity and unit labour costs grew strongly, according to the ABS.
More than four years after the expiry of their 2002-05 agreement, Virgin Blue cabin crew have voted up a new enterprise deal that delivers 3% annual pay rises, increases duty hours and creates new lower-paid entry-level positions.
