FWA has questioned whether termination payments have to include the annual leave loading employees would have been entitled to on their unused leave - despite clear advice from the FWO that they do.
A postal ballot of BHP Billiton's second direct offer to its Bowen Basin coal mining workforce has been delayed for at least a week for FWA to hear union objections to the ballot process and the company's bargaining conduct; while BHPB has today announced that production at one of the seven mines involved in the dispute will cease indefinitely.
The Federal Magistrates Court has declined to order a company to pay a penalty for unlawfully failing to pay an employee his redundancy entitlements, because the breach was a result of the actions of inexperienced management, rather than a deliberate policy.
A Federal Court full bench has rejected a bid by the CFMEU to cover process technicians in a WA chemical manufacturing plant, in a ruling that might restrict the union's ability to broaden its coverage through the rules of the former Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association.
The HSU's national executive has moved ahead of the release of the report by Ian Temby QC and the outcome of police investigations to ask Michael Williamson to resign or face internal action.
Taking only "embryonic" steps towards reaching an agreement; relying on employer inaction rather than its own initiative; and naming the wrong employer after a restructure were all reasons for FWA's rejection of protected action ballot applications by the CFMEU in Queensland.
The ACTU’s executive has this afternoon voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution to immediately suspend the HSU as an affiliate in the wake of FWA’s finding of 181 breaches by the national office and with other investigations still to come.
The "sweet spot" for improving wealth creation and wellbeing at enterprises isn't in "tiresomely" debating fairness versus flexibility, while advocating simple cures for complex problems is IR "quackery", according to Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has made an interim order to protect the bargaining rights of Victorian hospital-based mental health employees by restraining the employer from circulating an agreement to the workforce ahead of a ballot.
