FWC bench to hear bid to overturn Coles deal approval; Heydon not planning to recall Shorten, but Howes set to appear; Ballot gets the go-ahead despite employer objections; Queensland FIFO report recommends workforce, accommodation laws; High Court confirms role of hindsight in determining injury claims; and Employers, unions decry threats to freedom of association.
An accountant, who agreed to sell his practice and its services over a four-year period will continue to be restricted from practising, after an appeal court rejected his argument that restraints of trade no longer applied.
The FWC has thrown out and labelled "lacking in integrity" the latest of a string of enterprise agreement applications sought by labour hire companies that "appear to be competing against each other on the basis of inferior terms and conditions".
The Fair Work Commission will engage an external "plain language expert" to redraft the Pharmacy Award before it is user-tested in a pilot as part of the tribunal's four-yearly review of modern awards.
PM says history the explanation for Saturday/Sunday rate differential; China FTA provides unfettered right to replace locals with cheaper temporary foreign labour, says report; and UK to share parental leave with working grandparents.
"Members only" collective agreements should be introduced and it should be left to employers to decide whether to provide the same wages and conditions to non-members, according to Sydney University's Ron McCallum.
The Fair Work Commission has hit back at Productivity Commission criticism, with its President, Iain Ross, saying that the PC's IR inquiry findings appear to reflect a "misunderstanding of [the] Commission's statutory role and functions".
A court has rebuked and ordered costs against a barrister who has already been subject to a personal costs order and "trenchant criticism" from several judges over her handling of an employee's general protections claim.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld an appeal by the CFMEU's mining and energy division over workers' entitlement to wages and allowances during protected industrial action at a NSW coal mine in 2012.
Lawyers have told the Productivity Commission that its proposals to end tenure for new FWC appointees and to subject members to performance reviews would undermine the umpire's independence, while raising concern about a suggestion that only non-lawyers should determine matters in the proposed minimum standards division.
