A major energy supplier has refused to pay more than $6000 compensation to a former consultant and has defended its "stringent and detailed training" for its HR specialists, after the Australian Human Rights Commission found it discriminated against him because of a conviction for importing prohibited substances two years earlier.
The CFMEU has sought to counter the Victorian Government's argument that the Fair Work Act cannot impair its capacity to conduct major project tenders with a submission that the government's construction guidelines are invalid because they go beyond state powers, in Federal Court proceedings today.
The Fair Work Commission has cast doubt on the validity of two proposed construction industry template enterprise agreements that purport to lock-in CFMEU default representative bargaining status and to preclude non-union bargaining by employees of the companies' future related entities.
Austin Health treated an employee with 20 years' service "extremely shabbily" when it made her redundant but the decision was savings-driven and not the result of adverse action, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
Fair Work Ombudsman inspectors will be given new powers to ensure 457 visa holders are being paid market rates and are working in their approved roles, under new arrangements announced by the Gillard Government.
CFMEU mining and energy division national leader Tony Maher refused, on propriety grounds, to support a proposal by his retired predecessor, John Maitland, to establish a "training mine" in the Hunter Valley that turned a $165,000 investment on the latter's part into $15 million, a NSW Independent Commission into Corruption inquiry heard this morning.
The narrow scope of the two-year transitional review of modern awards and employers' failure to produce hard evidence is at the heart of the Fair Work Commission's refusal today to reduce Sunday penalty rates in the hospitality and retail industries, but ACCI says the result shows there is no need for the Government to go ahead with its plans for legislative change.
Fair Work Commission members fell just short of meeting the timeliness benchmarks for reserved decisions in the first eight months after the introduction of the new performance measures.
A Fair Work Commission full bench headed by the President has knocked back applications to reduce Sunday penalty rates in the two-year review of hospitality and retail awards, finding the employers had presented little if any persuasive evidence to support their applications.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has cast doubt on whether it has jurisdiction to hear a bargaining dispute involving a national agency created under complementary state and territory laws to regulate and accredit Australian health professionals.
