A court has found a manufacturing company took unlawful adverse action against employees when it made unauthorised deductions after they took protected industrial action.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has today begun prosecuting two Qantas entities and Jetstar for allegedly paying foreign-based cabin crew working in Australian territory only half of their minimum entitlements.
Fair Work Australia's President, Justice Iain Ross, has told a Senate Estimates hearing this morning that the Fair Work Act should be amended to change the institution's name and separate its "adjudicative" and administrative arms.
A House of Representatives committee that is to conduct a review of workplace bullying will consider matters such as the role of workplace culture and the ability of policies to curb it.
Union accountability bill next week; Victorian Government ordered to produce documents; Legal advice sought on Victoria Police drug testing; Government to tackle Melbourne and Brisbane waterfront crime; and Productivity slump explained.
Falling productivity in the resources sector is unacceptable and has to change, federal resources and energy minister Martin Ferguson told AMMA's annual conference in Perth today.
Two former senior employees of a prominent Adelaide financial planning and stockbroking firm who set up their own company after being dismissed - taking many of their former clients with them - are now subject to a 12-month court-ordered restraint under a settlement reached this week.
The MUA has called on the Federal Government to take further action in response to a court ruling that two ships engaged in laying gasfield pipelines off the Western Australian coast are not within the Australian migration zone, and their overseas employees are therefore not required to have Australian working visas.
An IR specialist with the giant Inpex gas project has warned that unions will be making "some really big claims", particularly in offshore dredging and construction, as the expiry dates loom for the resource sector agreements made just before the start of the Fair Work regime.
Government asks FWA for broad apprentice review; Chef's adverse action claim fails; Qld unions criticise bill; and No comment from FWA on Thomson address.
