A resort and its owner have been ordered by the Federal Court to pay a record fine for sham contracting of almost $300,000, while the Fair Work Ombudsman has begun a second prosecution of Coles for alleged "wilful blindness" in its contracting-out of shopping trolley collection.
FWA's minimum wage panel has satisfied neither unions nor employer groups with its decision this morning to increase minimum award wages by 2.9%, but the Federal Government says it is "well balanced".
Workplace Relations Minister, Bill Shorten, told Workplace Express today that he had not received the report of the Fair Work Act review despite its May 31 deadline.
Macquarie University IR academic Paul Gollan has accused the Coalition of "copping out" after the shadow workplace minister reiterated that the Opposition wasn't ready to release an IR policy, while Gollan also called for urgent action on labour productivity, describing it as "almost a national emergency".
Fair Work Australia has this week knocked back a CFMEU construction and general division Queensland branch bid to seek approval from Brookfield Multiplex workers to take protected action in support of a proposed 37% pay rise over five years.
Fair Work Australia has rejected employer group arguments that workers compensation absences should not count as continuous service towards the six-month qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal.
The Federal Court has rejected Woolworths’ claim that holidays taken in lieu where Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Years Day fall on a Saturday or a Sunday are not "additional” holidays attracting penalties in Western Australia.
The AWU has failed in a bid to have good faith bargaining orders made against Woodside Energy during the parties' protracted battle over a new deal to cover FIFO and residential workers at the company's gas plant in Karratha, WA.
