A Federal Court judge has granted an injunction to the Fair Work Building Inspectorate to stop a "community protest" picket at a sewage farm construction project, while criticising evidence obtained by an IR consultant as a potential breach of telecommunications laws.
DEEWR received some 25 applications for the two new FWC vice president jobs and is close to providing Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten with a shortlist, the department has told a Senate Estimates hearing.
A parliamentary inquiry that has likened fly-in, fly-out and drive-in, drive-out work arrangements to a "cancer" on regional centres has been accused of demonising labour mobility in the resource industry.
The approach to assessing reasons for adverse action taken by the High Court in Barclay could encourage employers to explain those reasons in a way that helps their case, according to University of Melbourne academics.
The High Court has confirmed that the NSW Industrial Relations Commission lacks jurisdiction to hear unfair dismissal claims brought by probationary police officers.
The judicial and administrative heads of the Fair Work Commission have told a Senate estimates committee hearing today that they have no spare resources to implement the new bullying jurisdiction announced yesterday by Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten.
Unfair dismissal applications surged to their highest level yet under the Fair Work Act in the December quarter last year, but only 1% of the total translated into a finding that that the dismissal was unfair.
In a decision with implications for the future application of the Victorian Government's public sector wages policy, a Fair Work Commission full bench has awarded Parks Victoria workers a 13.5% wage increase in a three-year workplace determination, with 4.5% backdated to October 1 last year.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has today committed to introducing new laws that will enable bullying victims to seek rapid redress through the Fair Work Commission.
