The Federal Government should commit to ensuring that any changes to the Fair Work Act are enacted by the end of this year, according to ACCI chief executive Peter Anderson.
The AMWU might seek orders from FWA for Toyota Australia to provide lists of workers made redundant at its Altona car assembly plant, after being unable to obtain them from the company.
Endeavour challenges FWA's rejection of urine testing, cites "contradictory" rulings; and Indian restaurant fined for exploiting "vulnerable" 457 visa employee.
In an important ruling for federal unions that also maintain state-registered entities, the Federal Court has held today that NSW ETU members can't elect the CEPU electrical division's national leaders and have only a minimal role in divisional governance.
A FWA full bench has clarified the meaning of "fairly chosen" in Fair Work agreements, in its ruling that a single member was wrong in finding that the employer should have selected a "much more representative" group of employees to be covered.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ordered that a major accounting firm's former junior employee, who argued that restraint of trade provisions in his employment agreement should only apply to senior employees, pay the firm $188,000 in damages and its legal costs.
HSU national secretary and East branch president Kathy Jackson announced this afternoon that she will lay charges under the union's rules against NSW secretary Michael Williamson for matters including allegedly failing to cooperate with the Temby investigation.
