FWA has upheld a multinational corporation's summary dismissal of a worker who fraudulently used carer's leave to have a weekend off, emphasising that such conduct could harm other employees by undermining the employer's trust-based "unlimited" leave policy.
HR director to leave Telstra; Full bench reserves decision in low paid bargaining case; and John Holland OHS prosecution to proceed after bias case rejected.
The Federal Government has agreed in principle to introduce enterprise migration agreements for resources mega-projects; has supported 18-month apprenticeship training programs for 1000 experienced workers; and has opened a $200 million fund to provide training projects for skills in critical demand.
Two employees who withheld a new product idea from their employer, planning to instead leave and develop it themselves in competition with their old company, did not have a duty to disclose it, a Federal Court full court has ruled.
TNT Australia's axing during bargaining of approval for employees to have paid meetings with the TWU and for delegates to take leave for union activities constituted adverse action and unauthorised employer response action, Fair Work Australia has found.
The Federal Court will next month hear a challenge by the CFMEU to Fair Work Australia's approval of an Xstrata subsidiary's agreement that allows existing and new employees to "opt out" of its coverage.
The NSW Court of Appeal has overturned a finding that a solicitor from specialist employment law firm Fisher Cartwright Berriman failed to inform a constructively dismissed employee of an offer made during settlement negotiations with his former employer.
Retailer Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd has admitted its treatment of pregnant employees breached the National Employment Standards, after an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Fast food giants KFC and Pizza Hut have failed in their bids to modernise their enterprise awards, with a FWA full bench holding that they hadn't made out a case to retain the instruments and that their operations didn't differ enough from others in the sector to justify a separate penalty rates regime.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has upheld a union's appeal against the certification of an agreement that bought out employees' NES entitlements to long service leave and redundancy.
