HSU leader Michael Williamson has today gone on leave while police and a new independent panel investigate allegations about his conduct and that of his union.
Department won't conduct review, says Evans; Williamson expected to stand down; Single employer secures award variation; High Court to hear AEU appeal; Promotion for Westpac's HR manager; and ACT passes OHS harmonisation bill.
The Federal Court has fined a company and its managing director $30,000 for signing seven employees up to individual flexibility agreements with unlawful terms and threatening with dismissal or loss of shifts employees who resisted. Meanwhile, the ACTU has predicted that a FWA research study will reveal widespread abuse of the individual deals.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has denied a former federal climate change department executive leave to appeal against a finding that he was not forced to resign when his department instigated an investigation into alleged information "leaks" and code of conduct breaches.
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that a former national sales and marketing manager can continue to work for a competing business despite the restraint provisions in his previous employment contract.
A Federal Court full bench has accepted that the ABS didn't breach an employee's workplace rights when it dismissed her because of poor performance and her refusal to participate in a performance improvement process.
It wasn't unfair to sack a painter by text message because the result "would probably have been the same" if he had been dismissed face-to-face, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
