Harmers Workplace Lawyers' chair Michael Harmer sought to appeal comments made by a Federal Court judge about costs in a sexual harassment case based "on a plain misreading of the judgment", a full bench has found.
Independent MP Rob Oakeshott has told Parliament he will vote against the federal government's legislation raising the bar for employers sponsoring 457 visa entrants, arguing that there are already sufficient sanctions in the Migration Act to clamp down on any rorting of the system.
The ALAEA is challenging the recent deal between Qantas and the AMWU, AWU and ETU covering 1200 aircraft maintenance workers, maintaining it overlaps with last year's FWC workplace determination that followed the airline's grounding.
The Federal Court's longest serving member and industrial law leader, Justice Peter Gray, stepped down from the bench last month after 29 years, prompting Chief Justice James Allsop to acknowledge that the judicial body had lost part of itself.
An attempt by Melbourne's Swinburne University to introduce what the NTEU claims was a "secret non-union deal" with a handful of newly-appointed staff at a subsidiary college has backfired, with FWC ordering it to pay $33,655 in costs to the union.
NTEU to spend $1 million backing Greens and independents; High Court to hear CFMEU adverse action claim tomorrow; NSW Budget: 2.5% wages cap produces "efficiency dividends"; Filipino company to face court over underpayment claims; AMMA paper urges scrapping of entry law changes; and FWC satisfied with ALDI undertakings.
The body charged with reviewing the Fair Work Act should the Coalition win – as appears increasingly likely – the September 14 federal election, has released a report highlighting the marked increase in labour productivity last financial year, but cautioned that it has more to do with capital deepening than greater efficiency.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a coal mine that dismissed one employee for rolling a company vehicle on site but internally disciplined another was entitled to treat the incidents differently.
A male manager sacked for having s-x with a female co-worker has failed to convince the FWC that his unfair dismissal application, lodged almost six months late after he became aware that he was treated differently to the other employee, satisfied the exceptional circumstances criteria.
