While conceding that the CFMEU's advice that workers would reduce output at the Yallourn Power Station could have been better described, a Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld an earlier ruling that the union's industrial action notice was sufficiently specific to comply with the Fair Work Act.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected an application by the ANF for a low paid authorisation to enable it to pursue a multi-employer agreement for practice nurses in private sector general practice clinics and medical centres.
The Greens have accused the major parties of parroting the submissions of conservative state governments in a Senate inquiry report on public sector working conditions, while another inquiry has recommended the Fair Work Act adopt new discrimination protections for gender identity and intersex status.
The Fair Work Commission has criticised the unsophisticated HR practices of mining company Central Norseman Gold, in a finding that it wrongfully dismissed an injured worker who the company claimed had "abandoned" his employment by failing to agree to an alternative role for which he was not licensed.
The high-income threshold for unfair dismissal applications will rise to $129,300 from July 1 (up from $123,300), while the maximum compensation will increase to $64,650 (up from $61,650) for post-July 1 dismissals.
A second Fair Work Commission member has departed from a full bench majority decision that allowed an enterprise agreement to include a pre-paid annual leave clause.
The Federal Court has found an employer's threat to terminate an employee so she could be engaged as an independent contractor breached the Fair Work Act, but has rejected the Fair Work Ombudsman's argument that the Odco-style arrangements at the centre of the case were a sham.
Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Senator Eric Abetz says he is "confident" last month's Federal Court findings that Victoria's construction code breaches the Fair Work Act's general protections laws won't survive the state government's appeals.
