SPC Ardmona has committed to maintaining a minimum staffing level of 500 full-time equivalent employees for three years at its Goulburn Valley plant in today's deal with the Napthine Government that delivers it the funding lifeline the Abbott Government refused.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled that a taxi company's decision to create a higher-level administrative position requiring Certificate IV qualifications meant that a previous bookkeeper role had become genuinely redundant, despite the new role picking up as much as 70% of the duties of the former one.
A FWC full bench led by the President, Justice Iain Ross, has ordered costs against a sacked employee for a vexatious appeal, but held it was clearly the HSU's fault and it should foot her bill.
The Fair Work Commission has issued its first ruling in its new bullying jurisdiction, dismissing a claim because the complainant failed to respond to two requests to provide more details and did not pay the filing fee.
The death knell for local car manufacturing that Toyota's imminent closure represents means it is not only members of Australia's main manufacturing union – the AMWU – who are facing a difficult future, but the union itself.
A senior member of the Fair Work Commission has criticised a law practice for failing to appear at its client's unfair dismissal hearing and defend its delay in lodging his application, but the firm's principal says the comments are harsh.
Confirming the broad reach of the Fair Work Act's right of entry protections, the Federal Court has ruled that union officials can rely on them when exercising access rights under State and Territory OHS laws.
In the wake of Toyota's announcement yesterday that it will pull out of Australian manufacturing in 2017, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told Parliament today that unions are to blame for stopping the company and workers from implementing productivity measures last year.
A Qantas manager's failure to seek sufficient HR advice and his close relationship with one of two employees at the centre of an alleged incident meant that his investigation was sufficiently flawed to render the dismissal of a long-serving flight attendant unfair, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A Coles warehouse employee who took home company-supplied Milo to create his own special formula for consumption at work has won his job back after the Fair Work Commission found there was no valid reason for his dismissal.
