Patrick has secret plans to lock out its stevedoring workforce for the second time in 13 years, according to the ACTU, after Patrick IR manager and former MUA assistant national secretary Mick O'Leary inadvertently left a voicemail message on a MUA official's phone that appears to reveal the company's strategy.
A Victorian tribunal has renewed three-year race discrimination exemptions for two companies that must comply with restrictive United States export laws because of their contracts to supply the US military, after hearing that only 10 people since 2007 had been affected by the existing exemptions.
MUA imposes new bans at Patrick container terminals; Jetstar temporarily halting hiring on individual contracts; and FWA criticises Coles subsidiary's approach to HR.
A retailer that summarily dismissed a regular casual employee in an "extraordinarily abrupt" manner via text message on Boxing Day last year has been ordered by Fair Work Australia to pay her almost $10,000 compensation.
Provisions in a Jetstar subsidiary's individual contracts breach the modern pilots' award, according to a Federal Court action lodged this week by pilots' union the AFAP, while the court will in July hear an adverse action case brought by the "Sunstate Six" - a group of licensed aircraft mechanical engineers allegedly disciplined after reporting aircraft defects.
The AiG has lodged an appeal against last month's rejection by Fair Work Australia of its challenge to contracting out, union membership and right of entry clauses in the Victorian electrical contracting sector pattern agreement.
A prison officer who can't work night shifts because of a medical condition has failed to convince a Queensland tribunal that his employer discriminated against him on impairment grounds when it moved him off the main roster.
