The Fair Work Commission has rejected a challenge by United Voice to the approval of an agreement, holding that the employer had validly used the same electronic system as it did for payslips to notify employees about the proposed agreement and ballot.
A new study shows that nearly half of Australia's managers check their office emails when away from work at least a few times a day, and that a majority of the nation's workers have the capacity to do this anywhere and anytime.
Court says dress code not a "requirement"; Victorian Government appeals building code decisions; Queensland ETU compares Newman to Hitler; and $11,000 adverse action penalty for carpet cleaner.
Former business leader Heather Ridout, union leader Jennie George and long-serving AIRC member Paul Munro have all been recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday honours list.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that an enterprise agreement clause allowing for the pre-payment of annual and personal leave in a "loaded" rate contravenes the NES, preferring a Federal Court judge's view over that of its own full bench.
Explosives and chemicals giant Orica Australia validly dismissed a shot-firer who tampered with blast recording equipment in breach of its contractual and statutory environmental obligations, the Fair Work Commission has found.
It wasn’t unfair to dismiss a HR manager who instructed a colleague not to provide board members with information when visiting the workplace, the FWC has found.
Employer-clientele IR practices in Australian law firms are set for a shake-up, with US firm Seyfarth Shaw about to open offices in Sydney and Melbourne staffed by eight partners from Herbert Smith Freehills, Ashurst and Arnold Bloch Leibler.
The Fair Work Commission has emphasised that women have the right to "give birth to children without foreclosing their employment", in finding that an employer constructively dismissed a female employee when it unreasonably refused her request to work part-time after the birth of her second child.
Victorian construction unions stick with Cbus; Slipper to face court over unpaid legal fees; Law Reform Commission to inquire into reducing legal barriers for disabled; Productivity up and labour costs down, as working hours fall; Single sector accounts for most days lost to industrial action.
