The Federal Court has found car parts company Tristar acted lawfully when it declined to retrench its remaining employees, despite them performing almost no meaningful work, and has criticised unions for using the workers as "foot soldiers" in a political campaign.
The NSW Supreme Court has barred a former executive from using "inside information" from his former employer and ruled that the 30-month restraint in his deed of release was reasonable.
Rio Tinto has followed its iron ore rival BHP Billiton in making a new five-year non-union collective agreement with a small numbers of workers, prompting unions to push the Federal Government to close what they say is a loophole in its transitional IR legislation. Meanwhile, BHPB and unions are close to striking a new agreement for the company's remaining award-covered employees in iron ore.
Remove exemptions from privacy laws for AFPC, employee records, says ALRC; LHMU calls on Starwood to end “media gag” policy"; Inflation to hit 5%, says RBA; Gillard urges Telstra to abandon Work Choices; and Recruitment company CEO wins breach of contract claim.
A labour hire company has been fined $40,000 and its director $8,000 for failing to pay three Filipino nursing assistants more than $13,000 in wages, casual loadings, penalty rates and holiday pay in breach of the Workplace Relations Act and the Nursing Homes NAPSA.
A rail maintenance company committed indirect racial discrimination when it demoted a Macedonian-born supervisor due to concerns that his poor literacy was a safety risk, the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has ruled.
A Donut King store operator who coerced and bullied a long-serving employee to sign an AWA has been fined $12,000 by the Federal Magistrates Court, following a prosecution by the Workplace Ombudsman.
Two months after locking horns in court in a union-initiated freedom of association case, the CPSU and the Australian Bureau of Statistics have reached agreement on a new protocol for negotiation, communication and access to the workplace which the union believes could be a model for all APS agencies.
