In a significant decision on Australian employment contract law, a full court of the Federal Court has found that the Commonwealth Bank breached an implied term of confidence and trust when it failed to consider redeployment opportunities for one of its executive managers shortly prior to dismissing him.
A month out from the federal election, the Victorian government is accusing the national Fair Work Building Inspectorate of failing to follow up four allegations of union misbehaviour on the state's construction sites – but new FWBC director Val Gostencnik denies the accusations.
The Fair Work Commission has detailed a 20-year-old strategy by Lion Nathan to remove union influence from its Tooheys site in Sydney, in a decision that found ten dismissed maintenance workers were legitimately employed by labour hire company FP Group Pty Ltd and not by the brewing giant.
With agreements covering vessel operators and labour hire providers in the critical offshore oil and gas sector expiring last week, AMMA has gone on the front foot in the public bargaining battle and released a report maintaining the MUA's claims for a new deal are unaffordable.
Leave loading ruling probably not last word, says Giudice; Abbott leaves door open on delayed paid parental leave; & Victoria updates leave calculator.
The Federal Court has found that BHP Coal took unlawful adverse action when it sacked two CFMEU officials for allegedly harassing and bullying a mine worker who had resigned from the union, holding the claims against them weren't made out and the company's actions were "inexplicably harsh".
Fast food giant McDonald's Australia and the SDA have struck a four-year deal that delivers some 85,000 employees around the country average annual pay rises of between 3.5% and 4.5%, plus guaranteed rest breaks and domestic violence leave.
