APESMA has closed its longstanding in-house engineering recruitment company, ETM Placements, and formed a partnership with recruitment specialist Bayside Group to provide a wider range of recruitment and career development services, while continuing to generate revenue for the union.
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The Federal Court has awarded $306,000 in damages to an advertising consultant who was retrenched 16 months after being enticed to leave his own business to join an agency that claimed it was successful despite being propped up by its parent company.
The magistrate who will decide whether construction worker Ark Tribe unlawfully refused to attend a compulsory interview has postponed his verdict, while the ABCC has reported a sharp rise in sham contracting investigations.
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld the validity of non-solicitation clauses that restrained two executives for 12 months after termination of their employment contracts.
Fair Work Australia has approved an agreement for Qantas’s main external supplier of casual flight attendants, but only after rejecting an employee's claim that she would be disadvantaged.
A Fair Work Australia finding that the FWO incorrectly advised hospitality employers on their award obligations has highlighted employer group calls for a mechanism to provide binding interpretations on difficult award issues.
The nation's chambers of commerce and a number major industry groups say significant changes are needed to improve the operation of the Fair Work system and that it is "wholly unrealistic" for Labor or the Coalition to rule out amending the laws.
