The Fair Work Commission has ruled that Subclass 457 visa holders cannot make legally binding employment contracts with employers that are not registered to sponsor them under the Migration Act.
Newman Government turns attention to health and safety changes; Building workers warned not to just walk off job to join Melbourne rally; and US union membership much higher in public sector.
The AMMA wants the FWC stripped of its appellate jurisdiction and a new body established, arguing this is preferable to "over-allocating" appeal matters to Vice President Adam Hatcher, which it maintains is happening now.
The Federal Circuit Court has ordered the Republic of Lebanon to pay more than $500,000 in fines, compensation and damages after finding that a consular employee was underpaid $100,000 in wages and entitlements and suffered adverse action when she was dismissed because of a workplace complaint and her sex and marital status.
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.
