Dismissed safety manager earned too much to claim unfair dismissal; Aged care facility to face Federal Court over pregnancy discrimination; Betting giant renews enterprise deal for call centre workers; Employer agrees to bargaining protocol after union seeks order; and Court yet to decide on underpayment penalties for car wash operator.
The Victorian Supreme Court today granted an interim injunction to stop striking Toll Holdings' employees from blocking movement of trucks and people at the Coles Somerton distribution centre in Victoria over the next two days.
The NUW is not planning to attend the Victorian Supreme Court this afternoon for the hearing of Toll Holdings' bid for an injunction to stop the picket line outside Coles' Somerton warehouse.
Fair Work Australia has terminated industrial action that it found would threaten to endanger life and limb at Parks Victoria, with arbitration looming if its bargaining dispute can't be resolved in the next three weeks.
Fair Work Australia has rejected MUA claims that stevedores at a supply base for the giant Gorgon gas project refused to work on a vessel for safety reasons, describing as "plausible" their employer's argument that the "elephant in the room" was that the ship was foreign-crewed.
Toll Holdings' striking workers at Coles's Somerton warehouse in Victoria have this afternoon voted to reject the transport company's bargaining offer.
FWA has granted a bargaining order to block the finalisation of an agreement at the Australian Rail Track Corporation while it decides whether a minority group should fall within its scope.
A tribunal has ordered a man to pay $8000 in compensation to an assembly line worker for sexually harassing him over a period of four months, but their employer escaped liability because it had taken sufficient steps to comply with its policies.
In a boost to South Australian public servants, the High Court has today given the Public Service Association the green light to resume its long-running legal battle over long service leave entitlements, in a ruling that clarifies the relationship between the state’s Supreme Court and IR tribunal.
