The Fair Work Act's majority support determinations have proven effective in overcoming employer resistance to collective bargaining, according to Monash University employment law academic Anthony Forsyth, who says there are early indications that the new IR laws are achieving the Federal Government's goal of encouraging collective negotiations.
A Good Guys cashier's tardiness and "low level insubordination" didn't provide a valid reason for his dismissal, Fair Work Australia has ruled, in ordering the retailer to compensate the worker for his lost earnings.
Vodafone Hutchison Australia's proposed new agreements for retail employees say that permanent employees who want to work flexible hours can best be accommodated by shifting to casual employment.
About 80% of workers would have their superannuation managed in simple, low-cost "MySuper" accounts that, along with planned back-office changes, would boost retirement savings by an average of $40,000 or 7% after 37 years in the workforce, under a proposal in the Cooper Review's final report, released by the Federal Government today.
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Food manufacturer Uncle Tobys denied procedural fairness to an employee when it dismissed him after he was convicted of child p-rnography and s-xual harassment offences, Fair Work Australia (FWA) has ruled.
A laundromat manager sacked while on sick leave - in part because Work Choices was about to be scrapped - has been awarded six months' pay plus $7,500 in penalties, after the Federal Court found her dismissal unlawful.
Clauses seeking to enable employees to opt-out of agreement coverage fundamentally undermine collective bargaining and are inconsistent with the Fair Work laws, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
When then Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard introduced her Fair Work Bill into Parliament in November 2008, employers' criticisms centred on its right of entry and bargaining changes, while unions celebrated the end of the harsher elements of Work Choices. One year since the legislation became law, Workplace Express has asked major IR players - including new Minister, Simon Crean - to review its first 12 months.
Woodside has won FWA orders requiring the striking employees of a key contractor on its Pluto LNG project to return to work, in a ruling the construction union says makes a mockery of the Fair Work laws.
