The AiG has argued for "substantial weight" to be given to employer organisations' views on the workability of the Federal Government's legislation for a new workplace gender equality reporting regime, saying it is employers, "not unions and special interest groups", that will have to comply with it.
Transport company Linfox has told a Fair Work Australia full bench that the tribunal member who reinstated a truck driver sacked for derogatory "pub talk" on what he believed to be a private Facebook page was wrong and made offensive remarks in his decision.
A tribunal has declined to use a "slip rule" to certify more than $150,000 in legal counsel fees that were not included in an original order for costs against a former manager who has been fighting unsuccessfully to prove sexual harassment allegations since 2006.
A full bench of the Federal Court has upheld a finding that Linfox didn't make misleading representations to lure an executive into a senior role at Avalon Airport.
Fair Work Australia has refused the CFMEU's application for an order directing an employer to halt an employee ballot and recognise it in bargaining, after finding the union had failed to "seize the initiative" and initiate negotiations.
A Fair Work Australia full bench denied a "functionally illiterate and brain damaged" gardener natural justice when it declined to adjourn his appeal due to the unavailability of his barrister, the Federal Court has found.
The fate of the NSW IRC remains uncertain, with a parliamentary committee recommending the NSW Government establish a super State tribunal that consolidates existing ones, but leaving it to an expert panel to determine how that's done.
Fair Work Australia will adopt a "more proactive role" under new President Iain Ross and undertake industry and workplace consultations later this year to discuss productivity and the "challenges and opportunities facing each sector of our economy".
The TWU has told a FWA full bench that a workplace determination of its dispute with Qantas that didn't include site rates would over time cover only a "dwindling legacy workforce", while the airline has argued the tribunal shouldn't do indirectly what it couldn't do directly when it came to enforcing site rates.
