The Federal Court has fined a company and its managing director $30,000 for signing seven employees up to individual flexibility agreements with unlawful terms and threatening with dismissal or loss of shifts employees who resisted. Meanwhile, the ACTU has predicted that a FWA research study will reveal widespread abuse of the individual deals.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has denied a former federal climate change department executive leave to appeal against a finding that he was not forced to resign when his department instigated an investigation into alleged information "leaks" and code of conduct breaches.
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that a former national sales and marketing manager can continue to work for a competing business despite the restraint provisions in his previous employment contract.
A Federal Court full bench has accepted that the ABS didn't breach an employee's workplace rights when it dismissed her because of poor performance and her refusal to participate in a performance improvement process.
It wasn't unfair to sack a painter by text message because the result "would probably have been the same" if he had been dismissed face-to-face, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
Scientologists disregarded Australian workplace laws; Take home pay decision reserved; Food production and maintenance workers seek separate agreements; and Opposition says HSU still "chained" to Labor.
Fair Work Australia has today ordered the TWU and 23 employees in aircraft "pushback" and waste handling at Qantas terminals in Sydney not to proceed with the strike action planned for tomorrow, as the airline prepares for thousands of the union's members across the country to walk off the job for four hours.
Sector-wide Victorian public servant action ballot approved; Desal arbitration looming as company fights court action and seeks new IR advisor; AFL players may go to Fair Work Australia; and CFMEU to target lock-out employer's sponsorships.
