A Fair Work Australia full bench majority has today refused a bid to have pilots employed by NZ-based Qantas subsidiary JetConnect regulated by Australian IR laws, while the minority has found that the operation is covered by the airline’s short haul pilots' award.
Fair Work Australia has come to the "tentative view" that it has no power to direct the Australian Electoral Commission to use a particular voting method when conducting protected action ballots.
Ai Group chief executive Heather Ridout has today called for a raft of changes to the Fair Work Act, including the restoration of provisions from Work Choices and its predecessor legislation.
FWA amends rules; Government seeking feedback on "Dad and Partner" parental leave payments; Union protests not a secondary boycott, says ACCC; Union to seek authorisation for industrial action in Victorian public sector; ACTU demands PC remove IR chapter from final report; MUA official recognised for anti-violence message; and High Court article technical errors rectified.
A group of about 1350 workers involved in a nine-day unprotected strike early last year at Woodside’s Pluto LNG project in Western Australia face individual penalties of up to $28,600 or an unprecedented possible collective maximum of $38.5m, if 13 construction companies succeed in a Federal Court case that starts in Perth tomorrow.
More than 3000 workers at Toyota's Altona plant today walked off the job for 24 hours and voted to do the same each Thursday and Friday for the next three weeks.
Just days before the tenth anniversary of the former Ansett Australia being placed in administration, a final $5.3 million dividend has lifted the amount the thousands of former employees will recover to 96 cents in the dollar.
Fair Work Australia general manager Tim Lee, Melbourne barrister Suzie Jones and Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal member Susan Booth have been appointed as Fair Work Australia Commissioners.
The High Court has today granted special leave for Bendigo TAFE to challenge the Federal Court full bench majority ruling that it unlawfully took adverse action against an AEU delegate. Meanwhile the court has also heard a bid for special leave to challenge the registration of the Australian Principals Federation.
The Federal Magistrates Court has rejected an employees' disability discrimination claim, finding her employer's actions were a response to the passive campaign she waged - "based on intransigence and obstruction to management" - to secure a research rather than an administrative job.
