The Federal Court appears likely when a hearing resumes on Thursday to order striking offshore construction workers to return to their job on a barge anchored in Bass Strait.
An apprentice chef who began self-harming, binge drinking and having suicidal thoughts after being s--ually harassed by his male manager has been awarded $8,000 in damages for distress, humiliation and hurt feelings.
About 60 workers on an offshore construction barge owned by McDermott Australia are yet to return to the job after going out on Friday, despite the company winning an interim injunction from the Federal Court on the weekend.
Sydney University Emeritus Professor of Labour Law Ron McCallum has today called for the Fair Work Act to be overhauled to curb sham contracting arrangements, at the ABCC shams inquiry's second roundtable meeting.
The NSW Coalition, which looks set to secure a landslide victory in tomorrow's state elections, has made no announcements on IR in the lead-up to the polls - though it has distinguished itself from the Keneally Labor Government on OHS.
"Transformative moment" looming, Kochan to tell Sydney forum; Bill returns federal politicians' pay-setting to Remuneration Tribunal; and JJ Richards appeal next month, AiG seeking to intervene.
A FWA full bench has taken into account the defensive measures available to an employer facing protected action in refusing to end protected industrial action on community safety grounds.
The AiG is challenging key provisions in last year's deal between the ETU (Victorian branch) and NECA for the State's electrical contracting industry - including on adverse action grounds.
