The Fair Work Commission has castigated an employer for "one of the worst unfair dismissals on record" when it dismissed a long-serving employee with a 21-word text message.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ordered the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to pay a former manager $187,000 plus interest, upholding his appeal against a County Court ruling that he had not been made redundant after an internal restructure.
Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet has told the NSW ICAC that former CFMEU head John Maitland misled him while securing his support for what turned out to be a large commercial coal mine, saying outside the hearing he'd had no contact with him since.
Employers that have retrenched labour within the last year should not be able to hire overseas visa employees, while jobs should be advertised locally for a minimum of 28 days before they can be filled by overseas workers, according to the TWU.
Unions have failed in a test case bid to protect entitlements of employees of a troubled business by using Fair Work Act provisions enabling the personal pursuit of company directors.
NSW cuts union board positions; CFMEU buys Trades Hall building; FWO changes complaints process; Ashby challenge to wind up tomorrow; and FWBC recovers wages.
The NSW Supreme Court has warned employers that poaching is risky and taken the rare step of imposing costs on a company that, even though it wasn't a party, funded an employee's defence of a restraint case instigated by his old employer.
The Queensland Government has introduced a bill into parliament reflecting federal government measures to make registered organisations more accountable, while also removing union encouragement and policy incorporation clauses from public sector agreements.
Employer groups have labelled unnecessary the bulk of the federal government's proposed changes to the 457 visa system and have criticised the tone of the skilled migration debate, with AMMA telling a Senate inquiry that it borders on dog-whistling and "invites allegations of industrial xenophobia".
Harmers hits back at Federal Court criticism; No mention of IR in new PC chair's first speech; Qantas less on the nose, says EMC; and Ross to hold mock trial.
