Toyota employees reject company sponsored agreement ballot; Construction unions have nothing to fear from new IR guidelines, says VTHC; and FWA wage panel to prepare report on best way to measure needs of low-paid.
The Victorian construction industry's drug and alcohol policy doesn't provide for compulsory drug and alcohol testing, but a Fair Work Australia full bench has found this is no barrier to a mandatory regime.
Fair Work Australia's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has called for an independent or bipartisan inquiry to consider the evidence on Australia's productivity performance and make recommendations for change.
Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has defended the Fair Work Act against persistent calls for change from the Opposition and employer groups, vowing that the Gillard Government will not "resile from the Act’s essential elements".
Plans to make 160 trades workers redundant at the $3.5 billion Victorian desalination plant construction project, have been put on hold, while FWA has ordered costs against a security firm worker who sparked a strike and accusations of spying at the project.
MUA workers who stopped a vessel on the North West shelf Gorgon project from sailing because of concerns about the status of some crew members' immigration visas might have considered there were good social or community reasons for doing so, but it was still unprotected industrial action, Fair Work Australia has held.
Almost 700 Reserve Bank employees have won annual average pay rises of 3.83% a year with the potential for more from a 2% annual bonus pool and a "career increment" pool that has been set at about 1% for the first year, under a new agreement with the FSU.
Don't provide ballot papers with deal, says FWA; Victoria Police to investigate Thomson; Unions denounce Qantas threats; and Disability payment challenge fails.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ruled that a senior employee is not required to re-pay a 12-week redundancy payout that her former employer wanted back after discovering it had no legal obligation to make it.
