An unfair dismissal case brought by former casino pit manager and whistleblower Gregory Culpan has seen Sydney's The Star casino chase documents and emails from Seven Network (Operations) and the ABC, and the broadcasters seek costs in response.
A FWA full bench has rejected VECCI's bid to vary minimum shift length requirements in the Clerks - Private Sector Award 2010, saying the evidence the employer group presented was not "anywhere near sufficient".
The battle over restrictions on the engagement of contractors moves back to Fair Work Australia tomorrow, with the AiG and the Queensland MBA seeking to intervene in a CFMEU appeal against a refusal to grant it a protected action ballot order at Brookfield Multiplex.
Qantas and one of its managers found by the full Federal Court to have coerced and taken adverse action against an aircraft engineer who complained about being underpaid while on an overseas posting have been ordered to pay him a total of $15,400.
An FWA full bench has today rejected an appeal by Endeavour Energy against an earlier decision that found the company could only administer saliva based (swab) tests in the workplace to detect drugs such as cannabis, instead of urine tests, which the AMMA had criticised as an interference in "managerial autonomy".
The ADJ Contracting agreement has survived a third challenge from the AiG, with a full court of the Federal Court today upholding the validity of clauses regulating contractors, right of entry and union promotion.
RMIT University associate professor Anthony Forsyth has criticised the Fair Work Act review's failure to recommend expanding compulsory arbitration powers to help resolve intractable industrial disputes, and suggested that the Qantas outcome might encourage other employers to follow the airline's lead.
Confirming an outcome that the Fair Work Act review panel says should be reversed, the Federal Court has dismissed the CFMEU's argument that four "fly in/fly out" workers should not have had their accommodation taken away when they went on strike at Woodside's Pluto gas project.
Adelaide University's Andrew Stewart still thinks the "guts of the Fair Work system" will be in place in a few years time, although his confidence in that belief is waning in the face of the current campaign against it.
