The High Court has today granted special leave for Bendigo TAFE to challenge the Federal Court full bench majority ruling that it unlawfully took adverse action against an AEU delegate. Meanwhile the court has also heard a bid for special leave to challenge the registration of the Australian Principals Federation.
The Federal Magistrates Court has rejected an employees' disability discrimination claim, finding her employer's actions were a response to the passive campaign she waged - "based on intransigence and obstruction to management" - to secure a research rather than an administrative job.
FWA upholds Virgin's sacking of attendant for abusing staff travel entitlement; $23,000 payout for driver who refused to clean up asbestos-contaminated soil; FWA upholds dismissal for failing to obey sacking order; Sacked Xstrata contracts officer wins compensation; Butcher engineered own demise, says tribunal; $160,000-a-year manager can't make dismissal claim; Pie manufacturer's sacking of injured worker "inherently flawed"; and FWA revokes unfair dismissal discontinuance notice.
Senator Fisher trial begins; Abbott principles encouraging, says AMMA; Greens would block changes; HSU No 4 branch says it initiated inquiry; Qld minimum wages increase; Days lost increases in June quarter; and It's equal pay day.
The Federal Court has quashed a FWA full bench finding that it was not frivolous or vexatious for an Australia Post employee to pursue an unfair dismissal claim he had earlier agreed to settle.
The acrimonious ETU election that pitted the national and Victorian offices of the union against each other has essentially preserved the status quo, with the warring parties now facing an uncomfortable four years together.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has given a strong indication that the Coalition is considering including statutory individual contracts in the IR policy it takes to the next election.
A male Goodyear Tyres executive sacked for allegedly having an affair with a female HR executive has been cleared to pursue his discrimination case against the company, after a tribunal refused a bid to strike it out.
