Fair Work Australia has rejected an employer's argument that an AWA employee is not entitled to protection under the Fair Work Act's unfair dismissal provisions, but has indicated it may apply the 14-day time limit on claims more strictly than under the former laws.
In an important ruling, the NSW Supreme Court has ruled that a recruitment company wasn't entitled to rely on a HR policy introduced four months after a consultant's engagement to withhold $50,000 in commission payments when he left.
Fielding rules out compromise on BCCI Act; APESMA shatters award-free accountants myth; English test for teachers not discriminatory: tribunal; ABCC seeks penalties over stalled concrete pour; and Correction on cross-border employment claim
The Productivity Commission has rejected "prescriptive regulatory measures" such as pay caps to curb executive remuneration excesses, saying that after considering alternative measures put to its inquiry, it is "not convinced that the way forward is to by-pass the central role of boards in remuneration-setting".
PC executive pay report recommends "two-strikes" policy for recalcitrant boards; ABCC intervenes in Burrup unlawful strike case; Bad blood in the past as Caelli does union deal; McDonald hit with injunction over spurious OHS claims; FWA upholds Woolies' sickie sacking; and New audit report outlines annual leave changes in new Act.
NAB and the FSU have agreed to a 15-month agreement extension that will deliver most of the bank's employees 2% annual pay increases and a $750 sign-on bonus, in the first formal bargain struck by a big bank under Labor.
G20 calls for executive remuneration reform in finance; FWA appoints dismissals and agreements director; and Hockey advisor Minna Knight seeking Liberal preselection.
A Federal Court full bench has more than doubled a coercion penalty against the CFMEU, in a comprehensive rewriting of a ruling by a senior judicial member of its industrial panel.
NSW is yet to agree to refer its IR powers to Canberra, while WA is continuing to go its own way, following Friday’s meeting of state and federal IR ministers that also agreed to release the draft uniform OHS laws for public comment. Meanwhile, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has endorsed the AIRC's new draft restaurant industry modern award.
A Fair Work Australia full bench yesterday reserved its decision on a bid by offshore oil and gas logistics company Total Marine Services to have the tribunal impose a higher threshold for granting protected action ballots.
