The SDA has today lost its Federal Court appeal against Fair Work Australia's variation of the modern retail award to allow school students to work shifts of less than three hours.
The Federal Court has this morning raised three potential problems with the bids by both the Federal Government and the six non-HSU East branches of the warring union to have HSU East placed into administration.
NSW Greens IR spokesperson David Shoebridge hopes an administrator for the troubled state-registered HSU East branch could be appointed as soon as today after the passage of legislation through the NSW Parliament.
Unions will seek to introduce new good faith bargaining requirements; expand the range of matters than can be bargained over; abolish the Minister's power to terminate protected action; end Qantas-style bargaining tactics; increase the national weekly minimum wage to $660 by 2015; extend employees' rights to request flexible work arrangements; and increase personal carer's leave by five days, under policy proposals before ACTU Congress next week.
A Federal Court full court, ruling on the long-haul pilots union's challenge to last year's Qantas lockout, has confirmed there is a "low threshold" for employer response action, with no need for it to be "reasonable, proportionate or rational".
Queensland Health must pay $21,000 compensation to a nurse for imposing "one size fits all" rostering requirements on her that she could not meet due to impairment caused by a head injury.
A Federal Court full court has rejected a health service appeal against a decision that could mean the Victorian Government has to pay between $1 and $2 million in back pay to 250 mental health nurses going back six years.
"Women in IR" high tea leads to discrimination bid; Thomson promises to make "comprehensive" statement at next parliamentary sitting; Follow-up Monadelphous Engineering protected action ballot approved; and Attempt to reduce redundancy pay rejected.
The Federal Government in last night's Budget increased Australia's permanent migration program by 5,000 places to 190,000 - with almost all the extra spots to be filled by skilled migrants.
Fair Work Australia has rejected a bid by the CFMEU to prevent the approval of a greenfields agreement it had already signed, despite the union arguing there had been a "loss of mutual trust" between it and the employer, Abigroup.
