In what appears to be the first determination on the issue, Fair Work Australia has ruled that it is lawful for a salary sacrifice arrangement to reduce an employee's pay to a level below the award minimum.
A former Woolworths executive has failed to secure compensation for a depressive illness she claimed to have suffered as a result of her sacking, in a ruling that confirms the law on the implied duty of good faith and confidence.
Fair Work Australia has suspended industrial action by a group of about 50 fire equipment technicians employed by Tyco Australia in south-east Queensland, but the ETU is considering an appeal, saying that if the ruling stands, no-one will be able to take protected industrial action.
VECCI today sought an extension that would delay Fair Work Australia hearing its minimum hours award variation case until April next year, while the federal government emerged from its caretaker hiatus to give its position on the tribunal's proposed review of trainee and apprentice wages.
The MBA has made what is understood to be the first application for FWA to refer a legal question arising under the Fair Work Act directly to the Federal Court.
FWA has upheld the sacking of two coalminers for s--ually harassing and victimising a third male underground worker, holding that their conduct was "reprehensible and intolerable" and the "hypocrisy and arrogance of the arguments cobbled together in an attempt to explain and defend the indefensible is astonishing".
The Federal Court has upheld a finding that a manager made redundant during the global financial crisis wasn't entitled to damages for his employer's representation that he would have the job until he retired.
The Government's failure to appoint candidates with an employer background to Fair Work Australia's bench was not due to a lack of applicants, information provided by DEEWR as part of the Senate Estimates process has revealed.
The NUW has won what are believed to be the first orders to inspect non-member records and to waive notice periods for entering an employer’s premises, following an ex parte hearing in Adelaide on October 13.
