Some agreements lodged last year yet to be processed, says FWA president; Government will amend small business dismissal checklist if necessary; and Opposition seeks table of FWA case results, by member.
FWA has agreed to vary bargaining orders it made against the Commonwealth Bank – after finding it acted in bad faith – to impose an obligation on the FSU to keep confidential any pay offers the bank makes during bargaining.
It is not only ABC Commissioner John Lloyd but his deputy Ross Dalgleish who has been advised by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard that he won't be automatically reappointed when his five-year term expires, the DEEWR has revealed.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has upheld an appeal against a single member decision that would have permitted workers to take protected action in support of an agreement's requirement that contractors have a union enterprise deal.
A Senate inquiry has unanimously recommended the Government review the eligibility requirements for its paid parental leave scheme, to ensure women with a strong attachment to the workforce are not excluded.
FWA has expressed confidence that the $26-a-week increase it has awarded will not harm employment, but employers have warned it could damage the economy and add to labour cost increases companies already face as a result of award modernisation.
Fair Work Australia's president should not be required to appear before Senate Estimates hearings and Opposition senators should reflect on their continuing insistence that he do so, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard said today.
Fair Work Australia's minimum wage panel, in its first decision, has this morning increased modern award minimum weekly rates by $26 - just $1 short of the $27-a-week sought by the ACTU.
A priest with an offshoot of the Catholic Church was an employee of the aged care facility at which he worked and entitled to proceed with his claim for unfair dismissal, FWA has found.
The Coalition has this afternoon tabled advice - which it described as "independent and unambiguous" - from the Clerk of the Senate on FWA head Justice Geoffrey Giudice's request to reconsider the requirement that he appear before Estimates hearings.
