A Qantas flight attendant's bad language and agitated behaviour provided grounds for her dismissal, but it might have been different if the conduct had occurred on a building site, FWA has found.
Former ABCC deputy commissioner and Building Industry Taskforce head Nigel Hadgkiss is returning to the fray, with the Victorian Government confirming this afternoon that he has been appointed director of construction code compliance.
A regular teleconference that a Commonwealth Bank branch manager blamed for his attempted suicide was "part and parcel of his employment" and not a "reasonable administrative action" that would have excluded the bank from liability for his injury, a Federal Court full court has found.
Abbott says FWA acting unconscionably, obstructing justice; Days lost to disputes lower than under Reith's IR laws; BHP Coal internal email reveals company's hard line, says union; Court fines CFMEU $50,000 for unlawful "Blue Glue" strike; FWA stays reinstatement of Woolworths employee; and More incentives needed to keep valuable older workers.
A Federal Court judge has likened the employment relations on a Bass Strait offshore oil platform construction barge to that of a children's playground, in dismissing an AWU bid for an interlocutory order to halt a reduction in crewing.
Coles turned "blind eye" to underpayment of trolley collectors, says FWO; Retailer deliberately underpaid worker she said wasn't worth more; Gold Coast pizza parlour allegedly underpaid workers $20,000; and Construction company pursued for paying apprentice rates to unregistered apprentice.
AMWU national secretary Dave Oliver has, as expected, announced that he will nominate to replace Jeff Lawrence as ACTU secretary at the peak body's Congress in May.
The NSW Government has introduced bills that increase by eleven-fold penalties for unions that breach orders barring industrial action and provide for state-registered unions to compete for coverage of workers.
Nurses and Victorian hospitals agree to nine-day timetable to resolve dispute; IR change to be key plank of Coalition economic renewal program, but no details yet; New consistency needed in public holidays and termination payouts, says VECCI.
