BCII transition no bar to injunctions, says Federal Court; Appeal Court lowers James Hardie director penalties ; and Grocon sympathy action gives rise to Queensland orders
Fair Work Australia has refused to approve an agreement that purported to cover only one employee who doubled as a director of the employer, and another that failed the BOOT test by requiring employees to accept unenforceable obligations.
In a significant ruling on remedies available under the Independent Contractors Act, a full court of the Federal Court has given an IT project manager another chance to vary her expired agreement to obtain compensation from labour hire firm Clarius Group Limited.
The Federal Government has acknowledged that businesses will incur additional costs to comply with its proposed harmonisation of national anti-discrimination laws.
The CFMEU is asking the Victorian Supreme Court to halt further steps in Grocon's $10m tort claim arguing that if the company's case proceeds, its officials could effectively lose their right not to incriminate themselves in the FWBC's Federal Court coercion prosecution.
The AMWU says it will fight Victorian Supreme Court legal proceedings brought against it by WA steel installations outfit TFG Group over a picket at a Little Creatures brewery construction site in Geelong, claiming that the company's common law case is without foundation.
In an important ruling on the weight HR practitioners should accord to medical certificates, a court has today reinstated a weather observer who was dismissed for planning to appear on a reality television program while absent on sick leave for anxiety and traumatic stress.
Enterprise bargaining is only successful when negotiations focus on employees' wages and conditions, rather than venturing into how companies should be run or whether they should use labour hire workers, according to Qantas IR manager Peter Smith.
The Fair Work Act should be amended to stop employers using the good faith bargaining provisions to repel attempts to make agreements, according to CFMEU construction and general division national secretary Dave Noonan.
Former Darebin mayor Diana Asmar will contest the election for HSU Victoria No. 1 branch secretary after her nomination was declared valid by the Federal Court.
