The ACCI has told the Fair Work review panel that FWA should be required, as part of the agreement approval process, to enquire whether parties had considered a wages/superannuation trade-off during bargaining.
The CFMEU has lost an appeal against a Federal Court order that it must pay $98,000 compensation to a head contractor that argued that it had lost five days of an early completion bonus and incurred costs because of the same amount of industrial action taken during the project.
A senior FWA member has pointed to the recent Qantas and Victorian nurses' disputes as examples of where parties had a "very sophisticated understanding" of IR laws, and said that while having a lawyer by your side during disputes wasn't always necessary, it could be "prudent" to at least consider getting specialist advice.
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The AiG has argued for "substantial weight" to be given to employer organisations' views on the workability of the Federal Government's legislation for a new workplace gender equality reporting regime, saying it is employers, "not unions and special interest groups", that will have to comply with it.
Transport company Linfox has told a Fair Work Australia full bench that the tribunal member who reinstated a truck driver sacked for derogatory "pub talk" on what he believed to be a private Facebook page was wrong and made offensive remarks in his decision.
A tribunal has declined to use a "slip rule" to certify more than $150,000 in legal counsel fees that were not included in an original order for costs against a former manager who has been fighting unsuccessfully to prove sexual harassment allegations since 2006.
A full bench of the Federal Court has upheld a finding that Linfox didn't make misleading representations to lure an executive into a senior role at Avalon Airport.
Fair Work Australia has refused the CFMEU's application for an order directing an employer to halt an employee ballot and recognise it in bargaining, after finding the union had failed to "seize the initiative" and initiate negotiations.
