Manager sacked in cooking company "clean up" not adversely treated * Victorian HSU and FWC mediation complete * Maritime officers win appeal against award variation
Unions have told the High Court that NSW's political donation laws infringe the implied constitutional rights to freedom of political communication and association, and are inconsistent with Commonwealth electoral laws.
Companies should adopt targets for equal representation of women and men in senior positions and elimination of gender-based pay differences, and engage a "business-oriented" head of HR to drive change, according to a report the BCA commissioned from former James Hardie chair Meredith Hellicar.
The FWC has reinstated a long-serving Bluescope Steel employee after finding the company's operations manager botched an investigation and left it too late to involve HR.
Applications to approve enterprise agreements dropped by 17% in 2012-13, according to the Fair Work Commission's annual report, which also details the tribunal's role in helping Sydney Water achieve "a whole new way of resolving things".
Courts in Australia and the UK have interpreted freedom of association provisions in a limited way that does little to protect the "voice" of trade unions from employer victimisation, and the High Court's Barclay ruling is an example of this narrow approach, according to a newly-released paper by RMIT associate professor Anthony Forsyth and two international academics.
Four Filipino painters employed on below-award wages on an offshore drilling platform within Australia's economic zone are beyond the reach of the Fair Work Act, the Federal Court ruled today.
The HSU has launched legal proceedings to recover up to $40,000 in legal costs allegedly incurred by national secretary Kathy Jackson early last year without the union's authorisation.
