New assistance for self-represented FWC parties; Virgin ground crew vote down agreement; Melhem's move into Parliament gets the green light; McCallum to discuss Fair Work Act review and what comes next; and Union says Medibank employees rejected deal over work-life balance.
Painting the long-running Qantas dispute as a battle between job security and labour flexibility, two leading IR academics have suggested other major employers might follow the airline's lead in engineering arbitrated outcomes to difficult bargaining negotiations.
The Fair Work Commission has castigated an employer for "one of the worst unfair dismissals on record" when it dismissed a long-serving employee with a 21-word text message.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ordered the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to pay a former manager $187,000 plus interest, upholding his appeal against a County Court ruling that he had not been made redundant after an internal restructure.
Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet has told the NSW ICAC that former CFMEU head John Maitland misled him while securing his support for what turned out to be a large commercial coal mine, saying outside the hearing he'd had no contact with him since.
Employers that have retrenched labour within the last year should not be able to hire overseas visa employees, while jobs should be advertised locally for a minimum of 28 days before they can be filled by overseas workers, according to the TWU.
Unions have failed in a test case bid to protect entitlements of employees of a troubled business by using Fair Work Act provisions enabling the personal pursuit of company directors.
NSW cuts union board positions; CFMEU buys Trades Hall building; FWO changes complaints process; Ashby challenge to wind up tomorrow; and FWBC recovers wages.
The NSW Supreme Court has warned employers that poaching is risky and taken the rare step of imposing costs on a company that, even though it wasn't a party, funded an employee's defence of a restraint case instigated by his old employer.
The Queensland Government has introduced a bill into parliament reflecting federal government measures to make registered organisations more accountable, while also removing union encouragement and policy incorporation clauses from public sector agreements.
