Notwithstanding serious concerns about the employment arrangements for five workers of an office cabinet manufacturing enterprise, the Fair Work Commission has ruled it would be a "bridge too far" to lift the corporate veil and find that a company who purchased the business around the time of their dismissal was effectively their employer.
Next year's new apprentices – young and old – will benefit from significantly increased pay packets after the Fair Work Commission decided today that current award wage rates need to be lifted to reflect the changing demographics of the nation's apprenticeship cohort.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered Jetstar Airways to reinstate a flight attendant it sacked for being unfit for flying duties 16 months after she found what appeared to be a bomb in an aircraft toilet mid-flight.
The CFMEU has poured scorn on Grocon's submission that it should be fined $5m for contempt of Supreme Court orders that it lift its blockade of the Myer Emporium construction site in August last year, suggesting its penalty should be less than one tenth of that amount.
End point is what matters in offshore negotiations, says Shorten; Chevron execs should sleep in bunks, says CFMEU; & New maritime ILO convention in force.
With the FWC's new bullying jurisdiction to commence operation in less than five months, Master Builders Australia claims there are practical difficulties with the regime, including the potential for "go away" money, confusion arising from multiple actions, and the absence of a pre-screening process.
More than 450 meat industry labour hire workers, including refugees holding humanitarian visas, will have access to the modern award safety net after the Fair Work Commission terminated an agreement made under the Workplace Relations Act and which passed its nominal expiry date more than three years ago.
