Fair Work Australia's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has called for an independent or bipartisan inquiry to consider the evidence on Australia's productivity performance and make recommendations for change.
Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has defended the Fair Work Act against persistent calls for change from the Opposition and employer groups, vowing that the Gillard Government will not "resile from the Act’s essential elements".
Plans to make 160 trades workers redundant at the $3.5 billion Victorian desalination plant construction project, have been put on hold, while FWA has ordered costs against a security firm worker who sparked a strike and accusations of spying at the project.
MUA workers who stopped a vessel on the North West shelf Gorgon project from sailing because of concerns about the status of some crew members' immigration visas might have considered there were good social or community reasons for doing so, but it was still unprotected industrial action, Fair Work Australia has held.
Almost 700 Reserve Bank employees have won annual average pay rises of 3.83% a year with the potential for more from a 2% annual bonus pool and a "career increment" pool that has been set at about 1% for the first year, under a new agreement with the FSU.
Don't provide ballot papers with deal, says FWA; Victoria Police to investigate Thomson; Unions denounce Qantas threats; and Disability payment challenge fails.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ruled that a senior employee is not required to re-pay a 12-week redundancy payout that her former employer wanted back after discovering it had no legal obligation to make it.
Two companies and their directors linked to a Perth café that failed to pay wages for months to three Chinese 457 visa workers, provided no payslips and kept no employment records have been ordered by the Federal Magistrates Court to pay almost $30,000 in penalties.
SDA takes 90-minute after-school shifts fight to Federal Court; Reith and Riley to speak at Victorian IR Society conference; Compensation for worker who made throat-slitting gesture; Todd takes up job as Hilton Worldwide's regional HR director.
