Unions and Australia Post after three years of at times bitter bargaining have reached in-principle agreement on a deal that delivers the corporation's 30,000-plus employees a pay increase of up to 10% over three years.
Arnott’s Biscuits has successfully defended its move to suspend three employees for a month instead of summarily dismissing them, after the Federal Court rejected the workers' challenge under the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has clarified the threshold for appealing unfair dismissal rulings under the Fair Work Act, after it rejected a pharmaceutical company's appeal despite finding it might have taken different approach to the first instance decision-maker on some key issues.
TWU fined $35,000 over Qantas strike; Boss taking job a genuine redundancy: FWA; CFMEU, McDonald, took unlawful action, Federal Court finds; and NSW rail workers approve protected action
In what is understood to be the first prosecution for an alleged breach of covert surveillance laws, a mineworker in NSW has begun court action against his employer, claiming it unlawfully installed a hidden camera in the workplace.
A re-elected Labor government would introduce an uncapped guarantee on employees' redundancy entitlements, strengthen superannuation safeguards and crack-down on phoenix companies, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced yesterday.
Right of entry case to be heard again; Economy, not IR, top business priority; FWA rejects employee's "associated entity" argument; and Coalition will abolish super guarantee age limit
Fair Work Australia has rejected a mining company's bid to reduce an employee's redundancy payout on the basis that it had secured him suitable alternative employment, while in another ruling a labour-hire agency successfully argued it had genuinely made two part-time employees redundant.
Dismissal Code needs "fixing": Coalition; Wait continues for Tribe; Ticket inspectors strike; Female grads earn less; Former union leaders wrecking federal Labor, says Latham; and Quote of the week
