Sydney University's Professor Marian Baird has argued the world-first domestic violence enterprise agreement clause negotiated by the ASU and a local government authority in 2010 was helped along by "equality bargaining" factors, including expert third-party intervention, in a presentation to her colleagues at the annual conference of IR academics.
Jetstar unlawfully deducted training costs from the wages of cadet pilots, despite warnings against doing so from its external IR consultant and its head of flying operations, the Federal Court has revealed in a penalty judgment today.
Grand compact with Abbott a fantasy, says Shorten; FWBC launches Federal Court coercion action against CFMEU; FWO considering Patrick prosecution; and Ford planning early layoffs.
The FWC has accepted that a warning the Tax Office issued to a long-serving information technology specialist about its IT policy meant it was fair to dismiss him for a subsequent "flagrant" breach when he sent inappropriate material to his personal email address and stored offensive material on his hard disk in the workplace.
Construction companies tendering for Victorian Government work will have to drug and alcohol test their workers and use up-to-date monitoring equipment, under changes to the sector's code of practice announced by Premier Denis Napthine today.
The Fair Work Commission has received 44 bullying complaints in the first month of its new jurisdiction, but the tribunal's president says it's too early to say whether this is any guide to the future rate of applications
AWU leader Paul Howes has called for a new "grand compact" on IR in the spirit of the Accord, arguing that it is dragging the economy down for workplace laws to "see-saw" as governments changed hands.
In comments the ALP and Greens have seized on as an attack on penalty rates, the Abbott Government has told the Fair Work Commission its four-yearly review of modern awards should focus on job creation and that it expects there will be "significant changes" arising from the process.
The models and theories that underpin industrial relations have failed to evolve to recognise the “downward trajectory” of collective bargaining and IR and the rise of individual employment rights in advanced economies, a Cornell University professor will tell the opening session of the annual IR academics’ conference in Melbourne today.
The Fair Work Commission has accepted that John Holland's decision to directly employ building workers on its Queensland and NT projects has created a genuine new business, and the tribunal can therefore approve a greenfields agreement to cover the workforce.
