A retail chain could have avoided unfairly sacking a strongly performing store manager for refusing a substantial pay cut if it had utilised its in-house HR expertise, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The HSU has today resolved to provide Victoria Police with evidence that national secretary Kathy Jackson has wrongly spent more than $900,000 of the union's funds on non-union business, while TWU national secretary Tony Sheldon has referred allegations that former WA officials misappropriated $300,000, to both the FWC and the Heydon Royal Commission.
Independent Contractors Australia has challenged an ACCC ruling allowing the TWU to collectively bargain on behalf of a group of owner drivers engaged by Toll.
Private sector pay growth remained at a record low for the year to September, but it outstripped inflation because prices growth has also slowed, according to ABS data released today.
The Fair Work Commission has found that the United Firefighters Union is not bargaining in good faith in pressing Victoria's Country Fire Authority to agree to minimum staffing levels in enterprise bargaining negotiations, and has ordered the union to drop the claims.
An employer group has been ordered to produce material relating to the possible role an employee's leave of absence played in his subsequent dismissal but is not required, at this stage, to produce material that might support the employee's bullying claims.
Dredging International has hit back at submissions by Heydon Royal Commission counsel assisting Jeremy Stoljar SC that it "bought" industrial peace through a deal with the MUA, arguing there is "no evidence" for such a conclusion.
Large employers dominate the first group of employers to receive Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citations handed out by the Abbott Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
