Leading IR academic Ron McCallum is the Senior Australian of the Year for 2011, while the Fair Work Australia officer who oversaw the award modernisation process, Brendan Hower, was also among those recognised in yesterday's Australia Day awards.
In the wake of the debate over Christmas/New Year public holidays, the Federal Court has this week rejected an SDA bid to establish that when ANZAC Day falls on a Sunday, an additional public holiday is created on the following day for Woolworths employees in South Australia.
Federal Court rejects seaman's $2m backpay claim; Patricks fined $180,000 for OHS discrimination; Unions challenge PC position on aged care; and FWA to revamp "e-filing" system
A highly-paid corporate employee was entitled to $74,000 in damages for her employer's failure to assess whether she had earned annual bonuses during her five-year career, but the amount should be offset against an earlier ex gratia payment, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled.
Poultry producer Baiada has urged Fair Work Australia to take action against the NUW and two of its organisers over an alleged "campaign of harassment" at one of its sites and sought orders requiring the union and the ABC to provide material relating to video footage recorded at the site and televised last year.
A worker sacked for using his mobile phone while driving a fuel tanker engaged in "gross and wilful" misconduct that endangered the public and could have had "disastrous" consequences, Fair Work Australia has found.
Fair Work Australia has deemed non-permitted an agreement clause that would have enabled an employer to deduct recruitment costs from employees' pay packets if they resigned too soon after commencement.
The Victorian Supreme Court has found that an investment management company repudiated the employment contract of its chief financial officer, triggering his entitlement to a $250,000 termination payment.
FWA has upheld Linfox’s summary dismissal of a long-haul truck driver for falsifying a daily worksheet that indicated when he was too fatigued to continue working.
