University researchers are calling for publicity campaigns to raise awareness of the Fair Work Act's right to request flexible work, after surveys showed little change in the volume of requests since the provision was enshrined three years ago.
A full Federal Court, in a split decision, has ordered a retrial of the former ABCC's claims that a Victorian subcontractor lost work and should be compensated after it was targeted by the CFMEU on a Bendigo building site.
Significant numbers of Australian workers are performing unpaid work - much of it likely to be in breach of the Fair Work Act - with young and migrant employees particularly vulnerable, the country's first major report on the subject has found.
Labour hire firm Clarius Group Limited faces a potentially hefty compensation bill after a full bench of the Federal Court ordered the rehearing of an application to vary an IT project manager's expired agreement under the Independent Contractors Act.
ACTU secretary Dave Oliver has called on the major parties to enshrine weekend penalty rates in legislation and back a national portability scheme for annual and sick leave, in a speech to the National Press Club this afternoon.
Federal member for Dobell – and former HSU national secretary – Craig Thomson will attend a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on May 22 to decide whether he will stand trial on 154 charges under the Victorian Crimes Act.
IR consultancy Livingstones says it will appeal a costs order Fair Work Australia imposed late last year after finding that a paid senior agent had run a "futile" unfair dismissal case.
