FWA decisions are encouraging unions to strike rather than negotiate, while some unions are inappropriately using the protected action ballot process as a publicity tool, according to Qantas's executive manager of IR, Sue Bussell.
The ABCC has been “transformed” into the TBCC, the “Trendy Building and Construction Commission”, under its new leadership, according to its former head, John Lloyd.
Bass Strait strikers return to job, as company goes after AWU and delegates; Unions make 7%-a-year pay claim at Toyota; TNT Express workers win 4% annual pay rise; and Jetstar's response to "toughen up" email disturbing, says AIPA.
The German "internal adjustment" model of labour market regulation was much more successful in weathering the global financial crisis than the Danish "flexicurity" model or the UK's flexible system, a global employment relations conference has heard.
Harmers Workplace Lawyers told the NSW Supreme Court yesterday it couldn't rule out pursuing contempt proceedings against its former managing partner, Joydeep Hor, for allegedly breaching a non-compete court order, after allegations emerged that Hor was acting for one of Harmers' clients, Channel 7 executive James Warburton.
United Voice (formerly the LHMU) is challenging in both the Federal Court and Fair Work Australia the Spotless Group's "rollout" to cleaners of individual flexibility arrangements, maintaining it amounts to adverse action.
Fair Work Australia has upheld Dairy Farmers’ dismissal of seven employees who "blissfully ignored" the risks involved in sending, receiving and storing inappropriate emails.
Qantas job cuts a bargaining ploy, says TWU; Paid union meeting clause not a right of entry claim, says FWA; Fifty the new fifty-five; John Holland taks OHS charge to High Court; and UK's Willie Brown to deliver Isaac lecture.
Low-cost carrier Tiger Airways Australia will pay a 12% increase to its pilots over 27 months, plus a sign-on bonus, under its first collective agreement for flight crew, negotiated with the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and approved by Fair Work Australia yesterday.
