The Federal Magistrates Court has found construction employer Mammoet Australia Pty Ltd did not take adverse action when it stopped providing accommodation for striking workers at the massive Pluto gas project in Western Australia.
Victorian public sector unions are calling on the State Government to offer more generous wages deals after it reached agreement with police for a four-year agreement that will deliver average annual increases of 4.7% and a range of increased entitlements.
The Fair Work Ombudsman worked with 31 large national enterprises across nine industries during 2010-11 under its National Employer Program which is open to employers with multiple sites and more than 1000 employees, according to its annual report.
The ACTU has commissioned an independent inquiry into insecure work, to be led by former Keating Government deputy prime minister Brian Howe and former senior industrial tribunal member Paul Munro.
After a six-week adjournment to allow talks between the parties in the SACS equal pay case, a Fair Work Australia full bench has today agreed to a last-minute request by Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans for a further adjournment to enable further negotiations.
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The Fair Work Ombudsman has successfully prosecuted another sham contracting case, this one involving an abattoir owner which, the Federal Court found, moved employees from one internal company to another to avoid both past and future liability for employee entitlements.
The AiG's Peter Nolan, in a speech to the Victorian IR Society last week, warned employers against leaving it too late to take bargaining disputes to FWA, the ACTU's Tim Lyons sought to dispel "lies" about the Fair Work Act; ABC Commissioner Leigh Johns decried the failure of a key pattern deal to address productivity; and leading silk Herman Borenstein urged employers to think carefully before commencing legal action.
Caltex is taking the AWU to the Federal Court to stop what it says is "disruptive" unprotected industrial action at its Lytton refinery in Brisbane, despite the union claiming the action is based on a genuine safety dispute.
