A Western Australian employer has failed to secure an urgent injunction against a former employee it alleged had taken confidential information, after finding there was insufficient evidence it would be used unfairly by a competitor.
Employers seeking to rely on the genuine redundancy exemption to unfair dismissal claims now have clear guidelines on when redeployment will be considered reasonable - along with a warning against making redundant workers apply for advertised vacancies - following the rejection by a Fair Work Australia full bench of Ulan Coal Mines' appeal against an earlier finding that six workers it sacked should have been redeployed to other Xstrata mines.
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Points will no longer be awarded for occupations or merely "competent" English; approved overseas degrees will be treated as equivalent to Australian qualifications; and the youngest workers will no longer be the most highly valued under changes to the points test for independent skilled migrants announced by the Federal Government today.
FWA has suspended for three weeks industrial action notified at a South Australian electricity generator, accepting that it threatened the health or safety of the State's population but rejecting the employer's push to terminate it.
The National Retailers Association has failed in its bid to reduce minimum shift lengths for casuals in the fast food industry, after Fair Work Australia found it had presented "flimsy" evidence on the need for change.
The NSW Supreme Court has set aside five days in March next year to hear Harmers Workplace Lawyers' claims against its high profile former managing partner Joydeep Hor, at the heart of which is his alleged conduct ahead of leaving to set up his own firm.
The workers responsible for co-ordinating shipping within Sydney Harbour and Port Botany are considering taking potentially disruptive industrial action over their pay dispute with the ports authority.
A Gold Coast company and its director have been ordered to pay a former employee more than $50,000 for sexually harassing her and then dismissing her because she was pregnant.
