Guard loses claim that recruitment officer "tricked" him; Reserving positions for Indigenous applicants not discriminatory; Tribunal rejects woman on woman sexual discrimination claim; and Bullying allegations "inherently improbable".
PC calls for IR reviews to consider retail; FWA reinstates worker who repeatedly failed alcohol test; Childcare operator ordered to pay $6000 penalty for redundancy pay failure; and Benefits restored to 29 excess public servants but with sunset provision.
The AWU has secured a greenfields deal with the successful bidder for a major tranche of the $5.3 billion Victorian regional rail link project, and now the CFMEU is seeking to do the same for a different stage.
Unions advocated the introduction of enterprise bargaining two decades ago, but most were ill-equipped to deal with the move from an arbitration system to one that made heavy demands on resources and required strong workplace-level bargaining capacity, according to Griffith University's Professor David Peetz.
Many employers and employer associations saw the introduction of enterprise bargaining as a way to "clean up the horrors" of the previous two decades, but 20 years later many are now shifting back to awards as a simpler way to deal with workplace relations, according to academic Louise Thornthwaite.
A former Mitsubishi Motors employee who has initiated 34 Federal Court actions has lost his appeal against orders declaring him a vexatious litigant and preventing from beginning any further proceedings without leave.
An employee sacked after refusing to answer his employer's questions about competing business interests has lost his Federal Court full court challenge to his failed unfair dismissal bid.
The Federal Government will tomorrow provide additional information on the cost implications of an equal remuneration order for the social and community services sector, after a request today from the full bench hearing the case.
