The Federal Court has today found that an employment contract that obliged WIN Television to pay production director Rodney Hockey a resignation payment "as a redundancy" did not breach tax laws and was not invalid, but did not amount to misleading conduct by the network.
The Fair Work Commission has approved ten construction industry enterprise agreements based on the CFMEU's Queensland template, despite their inclusion of a contractors clause that the tribunal says might not pertain to the employment relationship.
The ACTU will launch another round of television advertisements this weekend, which president Ged Kearney has indicated will be more political than the last set now an election has been called.
The NTEU is in the midst of a legal battle to maintain the "most effective arrow" in its industrial action "quiver", with its challenge to the suspension of its ban on issuing exam results to Monash University students to be heard by a FWC full bench next week.
Late wages not enough for constructive dismissal, says FWC full bench; Federal public sector bargaining plans await election; & Education unions trump Newman Government on TAFE agreement.
In a significant decision on Australian employment contract law, a full court of the Federal Court has found that the Commonwealth Bank breached an implied term of confidence and trust when it failed to consider redeployment opportunities for one of its executive managers shortly prior to dismissing him.
A month out from the federal election, the Victorian government is accusing the national Fair Work Building Inspectorate of failing to follow up four allegations of union misbehaviour on the state's construction sites – but new FWBC director Val Gostencnik denies the accusations.
