A FWA full bench has clarified the meaning of "fairly chosen" in Fair Work agreements, in its ruling that a single member was wrong in finding that the employer should have selected a "much more representative" group of employees to be covered.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ordered that a major accounting firm's former junior employee, who argued that restraint of trade provisions in his employment agreement should only apply to senior employees, pay the firm $188,000 in damages and its legal costs.
HSU national secretary and East branch president Kathy Jackson announced this afternoon that she will lay charges under the union's rules against NSW secretary Michael Williamson for matters including allegedly failing to cooperate with the Temby investigation.
FWA permits legal representation to ease pressure on inexperienced HR manager; Application for correction motivated by "long running enmity" between unions, FWA rules; Essential service provider wins extended notice of industrial action; and Employee who wasn't sacked ordered to pay employer's costs.
A training provider that unfairly dismissed a manager while she was on sick leave has been fined $20,000 and ordered to pay more than $37,000 in compensation and $57,000 in costs.
Australia's collectivist history explains the absence of any human rights emphasis in our labour laws, according to workplace relations academic Professor Ron McCallum.
Unions NSW suspends HSU East; Employer justified in summarily sacking worker who took sick leave to travel interstate; ABCC awards sham contracting research tender; Defence company continues to be allowed to include race in employment decisions; Victorian industrial action widens, car parts manufacturer's future still uncertain.
A court has found that an employer took unlawful adverse action against an employee when it dismissed her for pursuing an underpayment claim in a state industrial court.
