FWA President, Justice Iain Ross, has today told Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Senator Eric Abetz that counselling commissioners about their decisions is dangerous, and that the competence of tribunal members is a matter for Parliament.
In what is set to become the first settlement in the current higher education bargaining round, the NTEU says it has reached an in-principle deal with WA's Curtin University to deliver academic and general staff a 4% per annum pay increase and conversion of casual and fixed-term employment into new ongoing positions.
An appeal court has reinstated a coal mineworker who failed a medical assessment after a doctor deemed he was permanently unfit for work due to a "significant and foreseeable risk of sudden incapacity", based solely on his statistical analysis of the worker's unhealthy BMI.
FWA's President, Justice Iain Ross, has renewed his call for "Fair Work" to be removed from its title, just a day after Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced it was likely to be rebadged as the Fair Work Commission.
The Federal Magistrates Court has upheld the right of employees to widen the scope of adverse action claims before the courts beyond what was in their initial Fair Work Australia application, after rejecting an employer's argument that this would render the tribunal's conciliation process "pointless".
The MUA has welcomed the Federal Government's review and planned legislative changes to improve protection for offshore resource industry workers in the wake of the Federal Court's Allseas judgment, but AMMA has warned that the Government should "proceed cautiously".
The NSW Supreme Court has awarded an AMP financial advisory agency $56,000 in damages and ordered its former financial planner and his competing business to return confidential client lists he obtained in breach of his employment contract.
Fair Work Australia General Manager Bernadette O'Neill has lodged proceedings in the Federal Court today against the member for Dobell, Craig Thomson, seeking penalties and compensation for alleged unauthorised expenditure incurred by him during his period as HSU national secretary.
