A court has made it clear that NSW employers that rely on information obtained after they dismiss employees for serious and wilful misconduct are not obliged to pay long service leave.
The Federal Court has approved penalties totalling $590,000 against the CFMEU, CEPU and seven officials for 12 days of unlawful industrial action at two major Lend Lease projects in May last year.
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld a major corporation's claim that it validly withheld its long-serving managing director's termination payments, including a significant bonus and long service leave entitlements, after it dismissed him for serious misconduct.
Workers at BHP Billiton's five Bowen Basin coal mines have accepted the latest proposed enterprise agreement from BHP Coal, bringing to a close almost two years of intense bargaining.
Worker who complained about car wash urinator refused adverse action extension; TWU wins access to non-member IFA records; and FWA allows AWU to intervene in agreement approval.
Craig Thomson's lawyer, Chris McArdle, says in one sense it would be disappointing for FWA's allegations against his client to be thrown out on legal grounds, because part of him would like to defend the case on the facts.
A new union is seeking to cover Virgin Australia's domestic and international cabin crew, and its registration application is before Fair Work Australia for directions on Friday.
The Federal Court has fined a childcare centre and its director and ordered them to pay compensation after finding they took adverse action against a pregnant employee when they reduced her work hours and refused her unpaid parental leave.
New productivity focus for Fair Work institutions; Road safety tribunal seeking analysts; AMMA gives blessing to government deciding FWA name; and Employers must notify police of serious theft allegations, rather than just raising them in court.
A FWA full bench has recommended that parties to proposed agreements check that bargaining representatives have been validly appointed, after upholding an appeal by a Victorian private hospital group against the certification of three enterprise agreements because an unauthorised person lodged them.
