A Federal Court full bench has thrown out Harmers Workplace Lawyers' chair Michael Harmer's novel third-party application to challenge a judge's comments in a sexual harassment ruling that he argued were prejudicial.
A FWC full bench has upheld the dismissal of an employee who refused to provide a urine sample for a random drug and alcohol test because he argued that a saliva sample – which he was willing to give - was more appropriate to assess impairment.
Employers will have to show they have advertised locally before they can sponsor overseas workers and Fair Work inspectors will have the power to investigate breaches of the Migration Act, under legislation put to parliament this morning.
The Fair Work Commission will approve three Aldi enterprise agreements it rejected last year because of their opt-out clauses, but only if the company provides acceptable undertakings to deal with "complex" arrangements for averaging of payments for leave.
Unions blast Newman Government's last-minute IR amendments; Parliamentary inquiry sanctions Newman Government's IR reforms; and Queensland budget profits from 2012 public sector cuts.
The federal government has dumped its right of entry provisions and again baulked at expanding access to arbitration for greenfields bargaining and intractable disputes, in changes it today agreed to make to its Fair Work Amendment Bill to win cross-bench support.
Uncertainty remains over whose idea it was to appoint two new vice presidents to the Fair Work Commission, following a Senate Estimates hearing last night.
The ACTU's flagged multi-million-dollar IR advertising campaign begins tonight, with the first of its television commercials to run nationwide during the high-rating State of Origin rugby league game.
Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Senator Eric Abetz late this afternoon tabled in a Senate estimates hearing a letter sent by former Deputy Prime Minister – and now Prime Minister – Julia Gillard to the ACTU in April 2010 warning it of the legal risks of a proposal for compulsory arbitration of disputes under enterprise agreements.
