Submissions will be required by March 28 next year for the 2012-13 minimum wage review, according to a draft timetable issued today by Fair Work Australia's minimum wage panel.
FWA has reinstated two coal mineworkers and upheld the dismissal of a third in response to allegations that they engaged in a "predatory campaign" of harassment against three "non-unionist" co-workers, in three rulings that underline the importance of employers observing procedural fairness when conducting workplace investigations.
Full Federal Court rules against costs order in ADJ; Anglo right to discipline CFMEU lodge president, says FWA; and Government urged to expand "right to request" to encompass all workers with caring responsibilities.
Uni SA's Centre for Work + Life is calling for an awareness campaign targeting employees eligible to request flexible working arrangements, after a survey it conducted revealed that less than a third of workers know about the entitlement.
In a rare FWA ruling on the definition of productivity, Schweppes Australia has been given a qualified green light to trial 12-hour shifts at its Tullamarine site.
Fair Work Australia has in two recent cases clarified the standard employers must meet when seeking to reduce their redundancy pay obligations on the grounds that they have secured acceptable alternative employment for employees.
Australia Post has successfully appealed the reinstatement of a worker who sent six pornographic emails to his sister-in-law, in another reversal of a decision of FWA Commissioner John Ryan
The Federal Government will amend the Fair Work Act's transfer of business provisions to protect the entitlements of state public servants when state government outsource their jobs or privatise their agencies, Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced today.
The CFMEU (construction and general division) has broken its self-imposed Victorian Supreme Court ban and will now defend contempt charges laid against it by Grocon and the Victorian Government.
