The federal government will amend the Fair Work Act to provide access to arbitration for deadlocked greenfields negotiations and to allow unions to hold meetings in workplace lunchrooms if agreement on another location can't be reached, Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced today.
HSU NSW's compensation claims against three of its former officials will be consolidated into one Supreme Court case, with the Federal Court agreeing to transfer the balance of the claims by former HSU East assistant general secretary, Peter Mylan, for outstanding entitlements, after dismissing his general protections claim.
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Union lawyers need to "get across the science" in drug testing cases and "choose their experts wisely", given that some company experts can have a vested interest in maintaining particular methods of drug testing, according to CFMEU (mining & energy division) national legal officer, Judy Gray.
In what is believed to be the tribunal's first consideration of "adequate supervision" under a national law regulating the childcare industry, a FWC full bench has compensated a long-serving childcare centre director who was dismissed for briefly abandoning a crying toddler who was in her care.
The Fair Work Commission is holding a Q&A session on Wednesday, March 13, on the rules changes required for unions and employer associations to comply with the new financial disclosure laws triggered by the HSU revelations.
The panel established at last year's ACTU Congress to advise affiliates on best-practice governance has concluded there is no need for additional laws, rejecting calls for unions to be subjected to company-style regulation.
A long-serving ANZ employee sacked for breaching a policy ban on serving friends and family by cashing cheques for her elderly mother has won her job back, with the Fair Work Commission criticising the policy's "restrictive element" and saying it "does not necessarily fit an attractive corporate image for ANZ in a small branch in a regional town".
AMMA has asked new Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to urgently re-consider the Government's plans to appoint two new vice presidents to the Fair Work Commission.
With polls indicating the return of the WA Liberal government at this weekend's state election, Unions WA is seizing on a commitment from Premier Colin Barnett that no-one would be worse off under the IR Bill his government released last year.
