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The Federal Government has "no intention" of making major amendments to the Fair Work Act, and those agitating for change should instead explore the options available to them under the new laws, Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans said today.
FWA has in the last week rejected on procedural grounds three separate applications to approve proposed agreements, holding in one case that taking "all reasonable steps" to give employees copies required more than notifying them that they could either get one at a meeting or pick one up later.
An adverse action ruling handed down yesterday makes it clear that the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions don't prevent employers from taking reasonable disciplinary action against employees, according to the lawyer who successfully defended the case.
The Federal Court has made it clear that employees who are victims of adverse action can be compensated for hurt and humiliation, in a ruling in which it awarded $85,000 compensation to a licensed aircraft mechanical engineer who was purportedly made redundant.
Industrial action at Patrick's container terminals that was due to begin tomorrow has been put on hold for more than a fortnight, after the company and the MUA agreed to a negotiation timetable in talks chaired by FWA Commissioner Anna Lee Cribb this afternoon.
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Fair Work Australia will this afternoon hear Patrick's bid to halt MUA members' plans to begin industrial action tomorrow at its four container terminals, while the tribunal this morning began hearing an MUA application to stop the company's plan to withhold the pay of employees who impose bans.
