A likely shortage of experienced, skilled supervisory and operational workers in the resources sector could reduce productivity and safety as the industry moves from a construction to operational phase, a new report has warned.
CFMEU Victorian branch secretary John Setka has been ordered to pay the costs of an unsuccessful appeal against a decision in his long-running defamation case against now Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Sky News.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, in its first and possibly last order, issued today, has increased from 14 days to 30 days the time in which contractor truck drivers must be paid after submitting invoices.
In a decision rejecting a labour hire company's argument that Tooheys was the true employer of its workers, a senior Fair Work Commission full bench has this morning poured more cold water on the possibility of the joint employment doctrine taking hold in Australia and maintained that the tribunal has no role in developing the common law.
With Linfox and TWU closing in on a new national agreement for 3000 drivers and warehouse workers, the FWC has knocked back the NUW's late bid for a scope order to carve out around 300 employees at the company's Truganina site in Melbourne's western suburbs.
A FWC full bench has directed a Jetstar flight attendant to address it on whether it can consider reinstating her in the wake of media reports that South African authorities are seeking to extradite her over allegations of "criminal conduct of the most serious kind".
A FWC full bench has refused a maintenance worker's bid to challenge his dismissal for failing a drug test and then providing a second, inconclusive sample 13 days later, ruling that he had repudiated his contractual obligation to comply with his employer's fitness for work policy.
Workplace relations is one of three areas the federal government has asked the Australian Law Reform Commission to focus on in next year's review of all Commonwealth legislation.
The High Court has granted the Commonwealth Bank leave to appeal the Federal Court's seminal full court ruling that the implied contractual term of mutual trust and confidence is part of Australian law.
