Fair Work Australia has thrown out an unfair dismissal application from a security guard at The Star casino in Sydney, confirming that employees should not distribute hard core pornography in the workplace whether or not they are aware of employer policies.
Fair Work Australia has again refused to include private sector lawyers within the coverage of the Legal Services modern award, finding that the ASU had not presented cogent evidence to overturn their exclusion in the initial modernisation process.
ETU Victorian branch seeks green light for election inquiry; Court rejects bid to halt CFMEU WA election; Union-owned law firm model one year on; and VP Watson among conference speakers.
A FWA full bench has divided over whether an enterprise agreement can be approved if the required notice of employee representational rights fails to refer to unions as default bargaining agents.
FWA says "exceptional circumstances" warrant backdating of pay rises for non-junior integrated ratings working on offshore resource projects to reflect the 2012 national minimum wage decision, while the tribunal has made substantial changes to the modern award covering the cinema industry.
The Queensland Government has failed in a bid to argue that public sector powers available to departmental chief executives when dealing with public service employees suffering from a mental or physical incapacity effectively override the State's anti-discrimination legislation.
CFMEU members at Rio Tinto's Blair Athol coal mine in central Queensland are planning industrial action that could include shift-length strikes from "as early as possible" next week, in a bid to secure the same redundancy package as employees on individual arrangements ahead of the mine's closure.
A new enterprise agreement covering some 90 Victorian child care centres and more than 1700 child care educators offers "superior pay and conditions" to previous agreements, but employer concerns about the improved conditions ultimately meant that only one-third of Victoria's not-for-profit centres have signed onto the deal.
