Anderson Rice solicitor wins compensation for breach of contract; Melbourne distributor to face court over $124,000 underpayment claim; and FWC refuses stay of anaesthetist's reinstatement.
Former CFMEU national secretary John Maitland will front the NSW ICAC on Monday as its investigation turns to the allocation of an exploration licence to Doyles Creek Pty Ltd, which he chaired, and the profits made from its later sale to a company that was then publicly floated.
A long-term paint worker who used foul language and was dishonest about his personal leave has won the right to compensation, with the Fair Work Commission criticising an HR manager for misrepresenting a "crucial" issue in a show cause letter.
The ALP, Coalition and Greens have joined forces to oppose independent Senator Nick Xenophon's bill exempting small business from penalty rates, while a more traditional ALP/Greens alliance has rejected Senator Eric Abetz's bill to toughen penalties for union officials, in two separate reports tabled in the Senate yesterday.
The Fair Work Commission has taken the unusual step of issuing return-to-work orders against 20 named Lend Lease employees who allegedly walked off six of the company's Queensland construction sites yesterday in a dispute over impending redundancies.
A full Federal Court has ordered the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate to pay half of the CFMEU's costs of defending a case brought under two overlapping industrial statutes, in a ruling that could influence the assessment of costs in similar cases.
The Fair Work Commission has approved a Victorian security industry agreement despite arguments from United Voice that it failed the better off overall test, ineligible employees voted on it and that the employer did not meet its obligations to explain its terms and provide relevant information to the workforce.
The Fair Work Commission has issued a good faith bargaining order that obliges Victoria Legal Aid to meet with bargaining representatives, including CPSU Victoria, before putting a new offer directly to employees.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a manager who directed two of her employees to falsely record weekend work on their timesheets as having been performed during the week, circumventing workplace policies aimed at reducing workers' stress and protecting their leisure time.
The federal government will amend the Fair Work Act to provide access to arbitration for deadlocked greenfields negotiations and to allow unions to hold meetings in workplace lunchrooms if agreement on another location can't be reached, Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced today.
