A retailer that summarily dismissed a regular casual employee in an "extraordinarily abrupt" manner via text message on Boxing Day last year has been ordered by Fair Work Australia to pay her almost $10,000 compensation.
Provisions in a Jetstar subsidiary's individual contracts breach the modern pilots' award, according to a Federal Court action lodged this week by pilots' union the AFAP, while the court will in July hear an adverse action case brought by the "Sunstate Six" - a group of licensed aircraft mechanical engineers allegedly disciplined after reporting aircraft defects.
The AiG has lodged an appeal against last month's rejection by Fair Work Australia of its challenge to contracting out, union membership and right of entry clauses in the Victorian electrical contracting sector pattern agreement.
A prison officer who can't work night shifts because of a medical condition has failed to convince a Queensland tribunal that his employer discriminated against him on impairment grounds when it moved him off the main roster.
Fair Work Australia has rejected a bargaining agent's bid for paid leave to attend negotiations, ruling employers' good faith obligations don't extend that far and it is essentially a voluntary job.
In an important ruling, FWA has found that wharfies at Patrick's Melbourne container terminal have been taking unprotected industrial action by participating in a "go-slow" that has cut productivity by a third, and has ordered them to stop.
An employee whose lawyer lodged his adverse action claim late has won his appeal against an earlier decision to deny him extra time, with a Fair Work Australia full bench holding it was unreasonable to expect him to do more than he had done.
Private sector wage rates excluding bonuses in the private sector are rising at 4% a year in trend terms - the highest rate in two years - while the sector's rates including bonuses in the private sector are growing more rapidly than in any period since 2008, according to the ABS.
