A group of about 1350 workers involved in a nine-day unprotected strike early last year at Woodside’s Pluto LNG project in Western Australia face individual penalties of up to $28,600 or an unprecedented possible collective maximum of $38.5m, if 13 construction companies succeed in a Federal Court case that starts in Perth tomorrow.
More than 3000 workers at Toyota's Altona plant today walked off the job for 24 hours and voted to do the same each Thursday and Friday for the next three weeks.
Just days before the tenth anniversary of the former Ansett Australia being placed in administration, a final $5.3 million dividend has lifted the amount the thousands of former employees will recover to 96 cents in the dollar.
Fair Work Australia general manager Tim Lee, Melbourne barrister Suzie Jones and Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal member Susan Booth have been appointed as Fair Work Australia Commissioners.
The High Court has today granted special leave for Bendigo TAFE to challenge the Federal Court full bench majority ruling that it unlawfully took adverse action against an AEU delegate. Meanwhile the court has also heard a bid for special leave to challenge the registration of the Australian Principals Federation.
The Federal Magistrates Court has rejected an employees' disability discrimination claim, finding her employer's actions were a response to the passive campaign she waged - "based on intransigence and obstruction to management" - to secure a research rather than an administrative job.
FWA upholds Virgin's sacking of attendant for abusing staff travel entitlement; $23,000 payout for driver who refused to clean up asbestos-contaminated soil; FWA upholds dismissal for failing to obey sacking order; Sacked Xstrata contracts officer wins compensation; Butcher engineered own demise, says tribunal; $160,000-a-year manager can't make dismissal claim; Pie manufacturer's sacking of injured worker "inherently flawed"; and FWA revokes unfair dismissal discontinuance notice.
Senator Fisher trial begins; Abbott principles encouraging, says AMMA; Greens would block changes; HSU No 4 branch says it initiated inquiry; Qld minimum wages increase; Days lost increases in June quarter; and It's equal pay day.
The Federal Court has quashed a FWA full bench finding that it was not frivolous or vexatious for an Australia Post employee to pursue an unfair dismissal claim he had earlier agreed to settle.
