The ADJ Contracting agreement has survived a third challenge from the AiG, with a full court of the Federal Court today upholding the validity of clauses regulating contractors, right of entry and union promotion.
RMIT University associate professor Anthony Forsyth has criticised the Fair Work Act review's failure to recommend expanding compulsory arbitration powers to help resolve intractable industrial disputes, and suggested that the Qantas outcome might encourage other employers to follow the airline's lead.
Confirming an outcome that the Fair Work Act review panel says should be reversed, the Federal Court has dismissed the CFMEU's argument that four "fly in/fly out" workers should not have had their accommodation taken away when they went on strike at Woodside's Pluto gas project.
Adelaide University's Andrew Stewart still thinks the "guts of the Fair Work system" will be in place in a few years time, although his confidence in that belief is waning in the face of the current campaign against it.
Accountant wins physical disability adverse action claim against former Queensland MP; and FWA rejects alleged two year old assault as basis for dismissal
Former FWA President Geoff Giudice says more thought needs to be given to how unions are recognised in the Australian bargaining process, pointing to the northern American jurisdictions as a possible source of guidance.
Fair Work Australia has rejected an employer's argument that he had no "arrangement" - for transfer of business purposes - with the previous managers of a hotel he was running and that a sacked worker therefore hadn't been employed long enough to make an unfair dismissal claim.
IR bills on agenda as parliament resumes; Pilots' arbitration continues; NSW unions gear up for further PS job cuts after audit report; and Unions welcome NSW building inquiry.
The Newman State Government has announced a further 2000 jobs will be cut in key Queensland departments and agencies, and issued a new directive that overrides provisions in some public service industrial agreements that limit the use of contractors.
UnionsWA told a parliamentary inquiry yesterday that job insecurity had contributed to the rise in workplace bullying, but there was still a reluctance among many workers and witnesses to report incidents.
