Good faith bargaining and dispute resolution get a specific mention while IFAs and adverse action don't, but according to RMIT's Professor Breen Creighton, the review of the Fair Work Act announced today by Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten is broad enough to allow parties to raise any issues they have with the legislation's operation.
In a novel strategy, Schweppes has sought to halt what it claims is an unlawful picket outside its Tullamarine production facility via bargaining orders rather than seeking a Supreme Court injunction.
A three-member panel made up of Reserve Bank board member John Edwards, former Federal Court judge Michael Moore and Sydney University Emeritus Law Professor Ron McCallum will conduct the review of the Fair Work Act, Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced this afternoon.
In the wake of the AMWU seeking a good faith bargaining order against high-tech manufacturer Cochlear, the company has lodged its own application, arguing that the union's repudiation of agreed bargaining protocols is a breach of good faith bargaining obligations.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has overturned an earlier ruling that employees of a business about to be sold were entitled to a redundancy payout under their enterprise agreement, holding that the Fair Work Act's transfer of business provisions prevailed.
The full bench hearing the first s266 workplace determination case today reserved its decision, after hearing from Qantas and the ALAEA on their consent deal.
Qantas and the Licensed Aircraft Engineers will take to this afternoon's Fair Work Australia directions hearing in Sydney a consent agreement that delivers 3% wage rises and ensures job security for existing engineers, but without blocking any future plans by the airline to move aircraft maintenance offshore.
The ABCC has urged the Federal Court to reject the terms of a settlement that would suspend individual fines of up to $8500 faced by more than 1300 workers who unlawfully walked off the job at Woodside's massive Pluto project in Western Australia last year over changes to their accommodation.
