A Fair Work Commission full bench has rejected a bid by AIPA to cover pilots employed by a Qantas subsidiary operating fly-in, fly-out charter services from Perth.
The Federal Circuit Court has this morning dismissed criminal contempt charges against a former union official over his involvement in the "community protest" staged during last year's long-running children's hospital project strike in Brisbane.
Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, has received a mixed report card from an independent investigation into allegations of workplace bullying, which found that while the organisation's work culture wasn't "toxic", its policies had encouraged a "blame the victim" approach.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has overturned two more decisions of Commissioner John Ryan, holding he made factual errors and placed too much reliance on the dismissed worker's evidence in both cases.
Unions have settled a Federal Court privacy law suit against Victorian desalination plant head contractor Thiess Degremont stemming from revelations that two of its site managers had engaged Bruce Townsend and his company Australia Security and Investigations (Tas) Pty Ltd to covertly gather information about the project's employees and job applicants.
The United Firefighters Union has failed to convince the Federal Court that the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board took adverse action against an executive assistant who wore a union t-shirt during protected industrial action in support of a new enterprise agreement.
The Federal Circuit Court has awarded a storage centre manager $32,000 compensation after finding her employer took unlawful adverse action when it issued her with a final written warning for leaving early to pick up her son, transferred her against her wishes, and dismissed her by demoting her.
