Employers must pay more than lip service to the protection of their employees' industrial freedoms under the Fair Work Act, the Federal Court has ruled in fining a company $10,000 for taking adverse action against an aviation engineer.
Conlon takes over as IR Minister in SA; ACTU says Qantas facing "strong industrial campaign"; FSU staff agreement rollover pays 3% rise over 12 months; Hodder alive and well; and IR academics and Law Institute call for Victorian Government to support Jobwatch.
The Federal Court has dissolved an interim injunction against building unions, after accepting evidence that they didn't encourage workers to continue with a strike at a courts construction project in the Brisbane CBD.
Qantas says aviation unions running "kamikaze campaign"; Jobwatch future under threat; and FWA upholds dismissal of worker who tested positive for alcohol.
Bankwest employees have won guaranteed 4% annual pay rises plus further performance-related rises that will provide an additional 2% for the overwhelming majority, while the bank will now engage all new recruits as seven-day workers, under its first agreement since the 2008 CBA takeover.
A Federal Court judge has called for more clarity on the distinction between employees and independent contractors, in a ruling in which he found thousands of interpreters had wrongly been treated as independent contractors and missed out on five years of their employer’s super contributions.
A full bench of the Federal Court has today rejected a Rio Tinto subsidiary’s bid to overturn the reinstatement of a Hunter Valley mineworker sacked over a safety breach, in a ruling that provides guidance for practitioners on the grounds for arguing for permission to appeal unfair dismissal decisions.
An appeal court has upheld Macquarie Bank's contention that it isn't required to pay the unvested component of profit share bonuses when it dismisses employees or they leave of their own volition.
Waste contractor JJ Richards and the AMMA will today argue before a full bench of FWA that the TWU was attempting to commence bargaining, not to reach an agreement, when it secured orders for a secret ballot on industrial action at the company earlier this year.
The AWU today called for steelmaking to be given 100% compensation for the cost of the proposed carbon tax, or an exemption from it, because of challenges facing the industry outside of climate change, such as the high Australian dollar.
