LHMU wins scope order for single enterprise agreement; FWA rejects premature ballot application; Strikes stopped despite uncertainty over economic harm; and FWA grants ballot order, but puts unions on notice
Rio Tinto's five-year non-union Pilbara agreement it made with just a handful of employees ahead of the Fair Work Act taking effect has survived a Federal Court challenge by the CFMEU (mining & energy division).
Breastfeeding breaks for public servants; Full bench adopts Glaxo public interest ruling; NSW rail dispute rolls on; and McInnes to contest harassment claim.
A sales manager at a publishing company who left to join a direct competitor after a restructure left her in a less senior position has been restrained by the NSW Supreme Court from disclosing confidential information and from working on one of her new employer's titles, but the court rejected her former employer's argument that she should not be allowed take the job with its rival for a year.
Coalition paid parental leave scheme to start in 2012; FWA overturns "temper tantrum" dismissal; Hospital clerks stop work; Flexibility benefits of casual work a myth: Kearney; and David Jones to defend harassment claim.
"Sham" redundancy selection process irrelevant; Defence official sacked for "extreme language"; Worker who submitted invoices was an employee; and Christmas not an exceptional circumstance.
Women struggling for work/life balance; Rail workers to begin industrial action on Thursday; and ARTC can have lawyers in scope order case, Fair Work Australia rules.
Arnott’s Biscuits has successfully defended its move to suspend three employees for a month instead of summarily dismissing them, after the Federal Court rejected the workers' challenge under the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has clarified the threshold for appealing unfair dismissal rulings under the Fair Work Act, after it rejected a pharmaceutical company's appeal despite finding it might have taken different approach to the first instance decision-maker on some key issues.
Fair Work Australia has rejected a mining company's bid to reduce an employee's redundancy payout on the basis that it had secured him suitable alternative employment, while in another ruling a labour-hire agency successfully argued it had genuinely made two part-time employees redundant.
