Toyota Australia's urgent bid to re-open its 2011-15 enterprise agreement will now assume less importance, after the company announced this afternoon it will close its Altona assembly and engine plant by the end of 2017, putting thousands of employees out of work and marking the end of local car manufacturing.
The Abbott Government says it has given former High Court judge Dyson Heydon a broad brief to probe employer behaviour and the role of police in industrial matters in the royal commission announced this afternoon, but the focus of its terms of reference is squarely on union misconduct.
The Federal Circuit Court has awarded a general manager six months' wages after finding no justification for his summary sacking over personal spending on his company credit card.
Courts and tribunals are becoming less forgiving of employees who misuse social media as awareness of the public nature of the various networks grows, a senior employer official has told the IR academics national conference.
The Federal Court has ruled that Qantas had an implied contractual right to ask for more than just a basic medical certificate from a pilot on long-term sick leave, and it was not adverse action to threaten to discipline him for failing to provide information on his prognosis and return to work plans.
Award review heads FWC's 2014 work program; Storm delays Patrick's Port Botany automation plans; and Tribunal backs dismissal of teacher for physical contact with students.
Sydney University's Professor Marian Baird has argued the world-first domestic violence enterprise agreement clause negotiated by the ASU and a local government authority in 2010 was helped along by "equality bargaining" factors, including expert third-party intervention, in a presentation to her colleagues at the annual conference of IR academics.
Jetstar unlawfully deducted training costs from the wages of cadet pilots, despite warnings against doing so from its external IR consultant and its head of flying operations, the Federal Court has revealed in a penalty judgment today.
Grand compact with Abbott a fantasy, says Shorten; FWBC launches Federal Court coercion action against CFMEU; FWO considering Patrick prosecution; and Ford planning early layoffs.
The FWC has accepted that a warning the Tax Office issued to a long-serving information technology specialist about its IT policy meant it was fair to dismiss him for a subsequent "flagrant" breach when he sent inappropriate material to his personal email address and stored offensive material on his hard disk in the workplace.
