The FWBC is individually prosecuting more than 75 building workers for breaches committed when they allegedly participated in a strike in February last year at Perth's children's hospital construction site.
A court has today delivered a "wake-up call" to Toyota Material Handling and its HR department for breaches of IR laws that included making a false declaration to the Fair Work Ombudsman, drawing to a close five years of litigation that included a full Federal Court ruling on a time limit that had threatened to derail the case.
The obligation for employers to let employees bring a support person with them to any discussions that could lead to dismissal does not extend to allowing that person to be an advocate, a FWC full bench has confirmed in overturning a ruling by Commissioner John Ryan that an executive director was constructively dismissed.
The Federal Court has rejected a claim by Qantas flight crew that the airline breached its enterprise agreements when it didn't consider them for vacancies that would have required it to train them at a cost of up to $113,000 per pilot.
In a split decision, a Federal Court full court has held that the Fair Work Commission can grant an extension to the 30-day time limit for taking protected industrial action even where the application is made after that period has expired.
A full Federal Court has refused to overturn a finding that an employee whose firm was placed in receivership resigned and as such was not entitled to the $273,360 payout he claimed.
AiG chief executive Innes Willox has responded to Employment Minister Eric Abetz's criticism of "weak-kneed" employers by presenting the Abbott Government with a new wish-list of Fair Work Act changes.
Pay growth has slowed to the lowest levels since the ABS began recording its current data series, with private sector wages rising just 2.5% in trend terms in the year to December 2013 and public sector pay 2.6% — an overall figure of 2.5%.
In a rare pay-docking case, a senior member of the Fair Work Commission has ruled that employers can't simply rely on the cost to them of industrial action in deciding how much to deduct from employee wages.
The medium to high level of cannabis in the saliva of a storeperson and NUW delegate was enough on its own to justify his dismissal by a Woolworths subsidiary, the FWC has found today.
