Managers should not unilaterally decide that redundant employees won't be interested in redeployment to lower paid jobs, Fair Work Australia has ruled in finding a redundancy wasn't genuine.
Fair Work Australia has upheld the sacking of an employee who posted an aggressive anti-work rant on his Facebook page from his home computer outside work hours.
Qantas's job loss announcement had "inflamed tensions" with unions, but future industrial action at the airline would be bargaining-related, ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence said today.
Private sector rates of pay are growing at 3.8% a year in trend terms, only marginally ahead of inflation, according to the ABS Labour Price Index, released today.
Qantas to make 1000 employees redundant; Ministerial council to develop long service leave NES; Victorian IR Minister wants legislation review brought forward; Expectations of wage and profit increases a challenge for monetary policy, says RBA; Westpac brings employees back in-house; and State Commission rejects AWU work value claim.
The first union collective agreement in two decades in Rio Tinto's WA iron ore operations has won overwhelming support in a ballot that closed yesterday.
Fair Work Australia has upheld an order for a recruitment company to compensate a labour hire worker it dismissed for defacing a host employer's workplace with a swastika.
Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has been asked to plug a gap in the Fair Work Regulations exposed in a recent ruling that union officials, whether lawyers or not, can't represent workers in small claims proceedings in the Federal Magistrates Court.
