Tasmania's Hodgman Government has introduced draft legislation for its proposal to impose a 12-month freeze on the wages and incremental increases of the state's 24,000 public servants and remove the State IRC's power to award future pay increases above a 2% Government-set cap.
Federal Court judge and former Slater & Gordon partner Bernard Murphy told the Heydon Royal Commission today that he would have opened a file if he had been the solicitor incorporating an entity such as the AWU Workplace Reform Association.
A court has temporarily barred a manager from approaching his former employer's clients, despite the absence of an express restraint of trade clause in his contract of employment, finding that he might still be holding confidential information that would give him an unfair advantage.
A new FWC decision highlights that employers should tell workers who support colleagues during disciplinary investigations that the processes must remain confidential.
The Fair Work Commission has granted a company's request for good faith bargaining orders to provide for separate negotiations over four agreements in one case, but has knocked back a union's application for orders in another after finding that the employer was entitled to take a "hard" position in discussions.
The Australian Industry Group has called for a ban on unions using pattern agreements to "coerce" employers into using particular income protection insurance policies and employee entitlement funds.
A resources company must pay almost $1.6 million in damages and interest to its former managing director, who it dismissed for misconduct, after a court found he had complied with a direction to remedy a breach of his employment contact.
Former Victorian Solicitor-General John Cain will give evidence tomorrow and former prime minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday as the Heydon Royal Commission resumes its investigation of the alleged slush fund linked to the AWU in the early 1990s.
The ETU's Victorian branch has defended its $4.5 million slice of employers' insurance and employee entitlement costs at the Heydon Royal Commission today, while its former secretary Dean Mighell has accused the inquiry of "muckraking" by including fees paid to him personally in its evidence.
