Fair Work Australia has in two recent cases clarified the standard employers must meet when seeking to reduce their redundancy pay obligations on the grounds that they have secured acceptable alternative employment for employees.
Australia Post has successfully appealed the reinstatement of a worker who sent six pornographic emails to his sister-in-law, in another reversal of a decision of FWA Commissioner John Ryan
The Federal Government will amend the Fair Work Act's transfer of business provisions to protect the entitlements of state public servants when state government outsource their jobs or privatise their agencies, Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced today.
The CFMEU (construction and general division) has broken its self-imposed Victorian Supreme Court ban and will now defend contempt charges laid against it by Grocon and the Victorian Government.
The HSU's national council has elected Chris Brown as its president, after he had been acting in the role since the resignation of Michael Williamson in the wake of the Temby report, while a union that is seeking to represent NSW paramedics currently covered by the HSU will now be better equipped to proceed with its registration bid.
The NSW PSA has called for a mass stopwork by its members against changes to the main public sector award on October 8; while the State IRC has awarded some 16,000 NSW police officers – who are temporarily exempt O'Farrell Government's public sector wages cap – a cascading pay increase over the next three years.
FWA has declined to make a recommendation in a dispute over which of two awards covers a group of Coles supermarkets workers, holding that despite the tribunal being the awards' "effective author", the matter was also before the Federal Magistrates Court and a judicial determination was "more authoritative".
