Unions fined $110,000 over swipe-card dispute; Strikes loom at Toll; CSIRO workers vote up strike ballot; Full bench upholds employer's view on weekend penalties.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has emphasised the critical importance in dismissal matters of a "valid reason" finding, in quashing a Commissioner's ruling that an employee was unfairly sacked despite breaching safety rules.
Controversial CFMEU (construction and general division) WA branch secretary Kevin Reynolds has announced he will soon retire after a 40 year career in the union movement.
An error by his lawyer was not enough to get an employee's late adverse action claim over the line, with Fair Work Australia taking other factors - including the worker's own lack of activity - into account to reject it.
Qantas's common law damages claim against the TWU over a wildcat strike by baggage handlers in 2009 has resumed in the Federal Court after settlement talks a fortnight ago failed.
AIER goes in to bat for Giudice; United Voice to pursue broader advocacy role; BLF fined $20,000 for stopping concrete pour; and NZ to subsidise wages for earthquake-affected employees
The Opposition has used a Senate Estimates hearing to accuse ABC Commissioner Leigh Johns of "giving the finger" to the Senate and acting as the Minister’s proxy by introducing new safeguards on the use of his s52 coercive powers, while the Government revealed that critics of the ABCC’s sham contracting inquiry have compared it to the inquisition conducted by anti-communist crusader Joe McCarthy.
A FWA full bench has reversed a protected action ballot order granted to unions working on a Hunter Valley power station upgrade, after finding an existing agreement continues to apply to employees.
A national transport company has been ordered to pay $25,000 to an employee after it responded to her request for modified duties while pregnant by unilaterally changing her role and cutting her pay by $18,000.
