Maurice Blackburn head of employment law Josh Bornstein has slammed the quality of IR debate in Australia, citing unfair dismissal laws, individual contracts and productivity as three examples of the problem.
Greens IR spokesperson Adam Bandt, will next week seek to establish an urgent inquiry into initiatives to protect public sector workers from state government IR changes and job cuts; and James Hardie mini-series to screen next month.
A court has made it clear that NSW employers that rely on information obtained after they dismiss employees for serious and wilful misconduct are not obliged to pay long service leave.
The Federal Court has approved penalties totalling $590,000 against the CFMEU, CEPU and seven officials for 12 days of unlawful industrial action at two major Lend Lease projects in May last year.
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld a major corporation's claim that it validly withheld its long-serving managing director's termination payments, including a significant bonus and long service leave entitlements, after it dismissed him for serious misconduct.
Workers at BHP Billiton's five Bowen Basin coal mines have accepted the latest proposed enterprise agreement from BHP Coal, bringing to a close almost two years of intense bargaining.
Worker who complained about car wash urinator refused adverse action extension; TWU wins access to non-member IFA records; and FWA allows AWU to intervene in agreement approval.
Craig Thomson's lawyer, Chris McArdle, says in one sense it would be disappointing for FWA's allegations against his client to be thrown out on legal grounds, because part of him would like to defend the case on the facts.
