An engineer and his company have been ordered to pay his former employer up to $260,000 after he ignored directions to develop business opportunities for one of its subsidiaries and instead pursued them for himself.
ACTU calls for immediate move to 12% super; Local agreement precedence not permitted under Act, says FWA; and Representation rights notice a crucial pre-approval step
Patrick Stevedores and the MUA are struggling to find a way forward in negotiations for an agreement covering the company's national bulk and general ports division, with strikes from tomorrow at Melbourne's Webb Dock likely to deepen the deadlock.
The SDA and AWU were the largest union donors to the ALP in 2009-2010, while mining companies campaigning against federal Labor's new resources tax were among the largest donors to the Liberal Party, according to the AEC.
Fair Work Australia has rejected what Rio Tinto acknowledged was an "unusual" application to stay an earlier full bench order that it reinstate a coal worker sacked for a safety breach while it challenged it in the Federal or High Court.
FWA has rejected an employee’s argument that the 14-day period for lodging his unfair dismissal began when his notice expired, rather than the date when he was told his employment had been terminated. However, the tribunal ultimately accepted his application out of time, due to representative error by his union.
In an important ruling on the rights of employers to monitor and enforce their IT usage policies, the Federal Court has upheld the sacking of a senior public sector executive for viewing pornography on a work laptop while at home.
