The Fair Work Ombudsman is seeking leave to appeal a Federal Magistrates Court ruling that could restrict its ability to prosecute non-underpayment breaches of the Workplace Relations Act in NSW.
The Federal Magistrates Court has ordered a disability support organisation to pay a worker $44,000 in damages and interest for discriminating against her because of her pregnancy and childcare responsibilities, while its board must issue a written apology.
Wage rises in private sector enterprise agreements lodged in last year's September quarter dropped to 3.8% a year, after deals covering more than 100,000 workers in the retail, health care and leisure industries drove the average downwards, according to DEEWR.
Opposition calls for FWA to release HSU details to police; Tasmanian PS union members accept government wages restraint, while battle continues in Victoria and NSW; and CFMEU seeking to boost apprentice wages via award review, as MBA pushes for coverage changes.
CFMEU Queensland construction and general division members employed by Grocon will take protected industrial action from tomorrow in protest at the company's unilateral plan to seek employee approval for a proposed enterprise agreement.
A Qantas flight attendant's bad language and agitated behaviour provided grounds for her dismissal, but it might have been different if the conduct had occurred on a building site, FWA has found.
Former ABCC deputy commissioner and Building Industry Taskforce head Nigel Hadgkiss is returning to the fray, with the Victorian Government confirming this afternoon that he has been appointed director of construction code compliance.
A regular teleconference that a Commonwealth Bank branch manager blamed for his attempted suicide was "part and parcel of his employment" and not a "reasonable administrative action" that would have excluded the bank from liability for his injury, a Federal Court full court has found.
Abbott says FWA acting unconscionably, obstructing justice; Days lost to disputes lower than under Reith's IR laws; BHP Coal internal email reveals company's hard line, says union; Court fines CFMEU $50,000 for unlawful "Blue Glue" strike; FWA stays reinstatement of Woolworths employee; and More incentives needed to keep valuable older workers.
A Federal Court judge has likened the employment relations on a Bass Strait offshore oil platform construction barge to that of a children's playground, in dismissing an AWU bid for an interlocutory order to halt a reduction in crewing.
