National paint manufacturer Wattyl did not breach the national employment standards or its enterprise agreement by directing employees to take annual leave when it scaled down production to reduce stocks, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
Despite finding Victorian government agency Yarra Valley Water misled its employees about why it needed to change an agreement they had already approved, a FWC full bench has dismissed the ASU's argument that the workforce didn't genuinely agree to the deal.
The CCI of WA wants state public holiday laws amended to reduce employees' paid days off, and has reiterated its call for the Barnett Government to refer the state's IR system to Canberra.
APESMA says that a new agreement covering supervisory, technical and administrative staff at Endeavour Coal's Appin Mine - achieved after a three-year campaign involving Federal Court and FWC rulings - demonstrates the effectiveness of the Fair Work Act's good faith bargaining provisions.
The Federal Court has dismissed an NUW bid to keep Qantas freight workers who were reclassified after a restructure under its enterprise agreement, noting that the Fair Work Act doesn't specify what to do when a registered deal and a subsequent workplace determination cover the same duties.
A public servant sacked for refusing to submit to a psychiatric assessment has been reinstated, after a tribunal found that the direction was unlawful and her dismissal relied on a "prejudicial" HR disciplinary report.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected an AWU bid for scope orders removing two South Australian mining sites - Olympic Dam and Prominent Hill - from a proposed national agreement for a project services company whose earlier bargaining offer was voted down.
CPSU seeks talks on APS job guarantee; CPSU in talks over 1100 Testra job cuts; Report outlines measures to prevent fraud in workplace; and Newman head of business advisory council.
The mining boom and the associated boost in the terms of trade were largely responsible for a big drop in the wages share of the economy in the decade to 2010, but they also delivered workers a bigger increase in income than they received during the "productivity decade" of the 1990s, according to new research for the Productivity Commission.
