A Fair Work Australia full bench denied a "functionally illiterate and brain damaged" gardener natural justice when it declined to adjourn his appeal due to the unavailability of his barrister, the Federal Court has found.
The fate of the NSW IRC remains uncertain, with a parliamentary committee recommending the NSW Government establish a super State tribunal that consolidates existing ones, but leaving it to an expert panel to determine how that's done.
Fair Work Australia will adopt a "more proactive role" under new President Iain Ross and undertake industry and workplace consultations later this year to discuss productivity and the "challenges and opportunities facing each sector of our economy".
The TWU has told a FWA full bench that a workplace determination of its dispute with Qantas that didn't include site rates would over time cover only a "dwindling legacy workforce", while the airline has argued the tribunal shouldn't do indirectly what it couldn't do directly when it came to enforcing site rates.
National retail chain Aldi Foods had grounds to terminate a store manager with notice after he took goods home without paying for them, but its failure to act immediately or to conduct a proper investigation meant there was no basis for summarily dismissing him, FWA has found.
Stevedoring company DP World Sydney failed to act against a supervisor who was a known workplace bully and then unfairly dismissed a clerk he "set up" to fight him on the job, FWA has found.
Wholly-owned BHP Billiton subsidiary Endeavour Coal failed to make genuine efforts to negotiate an agreement with APESMA for salaried mine staff, a FWA full bench has found today in largely upholding a bargaining order against the company.
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A Fair Work Australia full bench has accepted that the summary dismissal of a hairdresser whose work performance deteriorated because of his recreational drug-taking was fair, but warned the same conclusion wouldn't necessarily be reached in all cases involving out-of-hours misconduct or drugs.
