Employees could be deprived of the award safety-net if Fair Work Australia terminates their old award without consdering whether it has been fully replaced by a modern award, Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has warned.
A Gold Coast manufacturer and one of its employees have been ordered to apologise to a potential employee for unlawfully asking him during a job interview to supply unnecessary information about his age and parental status.
Four employees who face disciplinary action or dismissal for allegedly posting comments on Facebook about the NSW Corrective Services Commissioner have won a reprieve, after the NSW IRC, for the second time, restrained their employer from taking any action.
ANZ Bank and the FSU have negotiated a draft enterprise agreement for the first time in more than a decade, but securing the deal could depend on employees accepting a performance-oriented pay structure and potential limitations on its arbitration clause.
The Human Rights Commission will conciliate publicity coordinator Kristy Fraser-Kirk's sexual harassment claim against David Jones on Friday, her counsel told the Federal Court this morning.
Australia Post employees in every state and territory have voted in favour of the government-owned corporation's proposed enterprise agreement, despite the CEPU communication division's Victorian branch opposing it.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has rejected retail employers' push for shorter minimum hours for casual employees under the industry's modern award and heavily criticised the "weak" evidence they presented, in a ruling hailed by the SDA.
New Greens IR spokesperson Adam Bandt says the party remains deeply concerned about aspects of the Fair Work legislation, including its curbs on industry-level bargaining and taking industrial action for social and environmental reasons.
The company established to roll out the federal government's National Broadband Network has made its first enterprise agreement, a four-year, 4% per annum greenfields deal negotiated with the CEPU.
An IT company has failed to restrain a key employee from working for another company in a similar field, after the NSW Supreme Court found it wasn’t a direct competitor.
