Significant numbers of Australian workers are performing unpaid work - much of it likely to be in breach of the Fair Work Act - with young and migrant employees particularly vulnerable, the country's first major report on the subject has found.
Labour hire firm Clarius Group Limited faces a potentially hefty compensation bill after a full bench of the Federal Court ordered the rehearing of an application to vary an IT project manager's expired agreement under the Independent Contractors Act.
ACTU secretary Dave Oliver has called on the major parties to enshrine weekend penalty rates in legislation and back a national portability scheme for annual and sick leave, in a speech to the National Press Club this afternoon.
Federal member for Dobell – and former HSU national secretary – Craig Thomson will attend a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on May 22 to decide whether he will stand trial on 154 charges under the Victorian Crimes Act.
IR consultancy Livingstones says it will appeal a costs order Fair Work Australia imposed late last year after finding that a paid senior agent had run a "futile" unfair dismissal case.
Mining company Whitehaven Coal Ltd has written to the RTBU asking it to withdraw its plans for a protected 24-hour strike at Pacific National on Friday and abandon future stoppages, while reserving its rights to seek third-party orders from the FWC.
New federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has given his department the go-ahead to canvass alternatives to the controversial offensive conduct clause in the exposure draft of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, with secretary Roger Wilkins presenting options to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Senate Committee inquiry.
A tyre fitter who argued that he should be released from an agreed settlement of his unfair dismissal claim because his former employer had not carried out a commitment to reinstate him has had his case dismissed because his own behaviour "frustrated" his re-employment.
