FWA permits legal representation to ease pressure on inexperienced HR manager; Application for correction motivated by "long running enmity" between unions, FWA rules; Essential service provider wins extended notice of industrial action; and Employee who wasn't sacked ordered to pay employer's costs.
A training provider that unfairly dismissed a manager while she was on sick leave has been fined $20,000 and ordered to pay more than $37,000 in compensation and $57,000 in costs.
Australia's collectivist history explains the absence of any human rights emphasis in our labour laws, according to workplace relations academic Professor Ron McCallum.
Unions NSW suspends HSU East; Employer justified in summarily sacking worker who took sick leave to travel interstate; ABCC awards sham contracting research tender; Defence company continues to be allowed to include race in employment decisions; Victorian industrial action widens, car parts manufacturer's future still uncertain.
A court has found that an employer took unlawful adverse action against an employee when it dismissed her for pursuing an underpayment claim in a state industrial court.
FWA has questioned whether termination payments have to include the annual leave loading employees would have been entitled to on their unused leave - despite clear advice from the FWO that they do.
A postal ballot of BHP Billiton's second direct offer to its Bowen Basin coal mining workforce has been delayed for at least a week for FWA to hear union objections to the ballot process and the company's bargaining conduct; while BHPB has today announced that production at one of the seven mines involved in the dispute will cease indefinitely.
The Federal Magistrates Court has declined to order a company to pay a penalty for unlawfully failing to pay an employee his redundancy entitlements, because the breach was a result of the actions of inexperienced management, rather than a deliberate policy.
A Federal Court full bench has rejected a bid by the CFMEU to cover process technicians in a WA chemical manufacturing plant, in a ruling that might restrict the union's ability to broaden its coverage through the rules of the former Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association.
