Fair Work Australia has rejected an enterprise agreement after finding that a term obliging the employer to supply protective clothing only to full-time employees could lead to unlawful discrimination and adverse action against casuals.
The union representing Qantas long-haul pilots could seek orders for a protected action ballot within the next two weeks after pilots in Melbourne today joined their Sydney colleagues in supporting the move.
Courts should treat the Brodie-Hanns principles only as "guiding criteria" when deciding whether to grant extensions under the Fair Work Act's s371, the Federal Magistrate's Court has ruled, in allowing an employee to continue with her late general protections claim.
Qantas coerced and took adverse action against an employee who complained about underpayments when a manager verbally intimidated him and deprived him of the opportunity to apply for overseas postings, a court has ruled.
The AMMA has joined critics of the Coalition-led insistence that Fair Work Australia President Justice Geoffrey Giudice appear before Senate Estimate hearings for questioning.
Offshore oil and gas industry vessel operators on the multi-billion dollar Gorgon LNG project in WA have agreed to pay a $90-plus daily allowance for marine work that doesn't attract the generous construction allowances won in the torrid industry bargaining round of 2009-2010.
Fair Work Australia's first release of quarterly performance data reveals the number of general protections claims are on track to exceed those in 2009-10, while applications for protected action ballots are trending downwards.
Striking employees on a Perth building site have returned to work after a senior ABCC official pledged to investigate their concerns about sham contracting, in an early demonstration of the watchdog's new direction under Commissioner Leigh Johns.
In a significant adverse action decision that strengthens protections for employees involved in union activity, a Federal Court full court majority has found that an employer breached Labor's new workplace rights provisions when it disciplined an AEU delegate over an email - which it regarded as damaging to its reputation - he sent union members at the workplace.
FWA has criticised as "repugnant" the behaviour of an employer who kept its options open on whether to redeploy or make redundant a long serving employee, but has found it acted within the terms of its enterprise agreement.
