Fair Work Australia has rejected an employer's application to recoup its costs of defending an unfair dismissal case brought by its former general manager, who failed to turn up to the hearing and allegedly used the claim to secure outstanding entitlements and apply media pressure to the company.
An unmarried doctor has failed to convince a tribunal that he was discriminated against on the grounds of his marital status by changes to WA government salary packaging arrangements.
Passage of independent Senator Nick Xenophon's bill to reduce penalty rates in retail and hospitality would "fundamentally recalibrate the existing and common distinctions between regular and other working hours and days" and cut the average weekly pay of 200,000 affected low-paid workers by up to $58 a week (11%), according to DEEWR.
An Australian army major who has alleged racial discrimination against the federal government has failed in his Federal Court interlocutory bid to be re-posted to Canberra to be with his family pending the full hearing of his case.
Twenty-five years' service was not enough to save an employee from losing his job after downloading and emailing pornography at work, with Fair Work Australia holding his dismissal was fair.
Employers are prohibiting employees from using social media sites such as Facebook during work hours and seeking to stop them from making comments on social networks about their companies after hours, a new Fair Work Australia agreement-searching tool has revealed.
A Federal Court full bench has overturned a finding that a CFMEU delegate – who had advised workers not to strike - "aided and abetted" an illegal stoppage on the North West Shelf in 2008.
Talks continuing in bid to head off Fremantle port strike; Public sector disputes boost days lost to strikes; and Government employees win protection for bushfire-fighting duties.
The AIG has today called on all state governments to follow the lead of their Victorian and NSW counterparts and introduce IR codes for public sector infrastructure projects.
