Fair Work Australia has rejected employer group arguments that workers compensation absences should not count as continuous service towards the six-month qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal.
The Federal Court has rejected Woolworths’ claim that holidays taken in lieu where Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Years Day fall on a Saturday or a Sunday are not "additional” holidays attracting penalties in Western Australia.
The AWU has failed in a bid to have good faith bargaining orders made against Woodside Energy during the parties' protracted battle over a new deal to cover FIFO and residential workers at the company's gas plant in Karratha, WA.
Registered organisations will have to disclose more financial information - including how much their senior officials are paid - and face a tripling of penalties for breaches, while FWA will have increased investigative powers and the right to pass on information to third parties such as the police, under a bill introduced into parliament this morning in response to the HSU scandals.
The jobs board that will enable Australian jobseekers to express their interest in positions at resources mega-projects ahead of foreign workers brought in under Enterprise Migration Agreements will be operating within days, DEEWR has told an Estimates hearing in the wake of Canberra granting the first EMA last week.
A senior Qantas manager has told a FWA full bench during the arbitration of its dispute with the TWU that culminated in last year's lockout and fleet grounding that the airline will not in future directly hire any more workers in its airports division.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has considered the implications of proposed enterprise agreements failing to uphold NES provisions requiring an additional week of annual leave for shiftworkers.
