FWA has quashed an earlier ruling that a brewery's sacking of a worker on restricted duties was unfair, holding that when assessing whether an employee can perform the inherent requirements of a job, it is the full position - not a modified one - that has to be considered.
Toyota agrees to 3% deal; ABCC asks ACTU to intervene in union dispute; Finance Sector Union leadership returned; FWA fixes award coverage loophole; Coalition introduces paid parental leave amendments; and Sydney IR barristers authors of new online employment law guide
Employers of high income workers who have entered into annual earnings guarantees that exclude them from modern award coverage have been reminded to "think again" if they believed those workers no longer had unfair dismissal rights; while a straw poll of the resources sector has revealed an overwhelming reluctance to allow any external review of decisions to refuse flexible work requests.
Two directors of accounting firm BDO have been prevented from departing to a recently-established rival after the Victorian Supreme Court made interlocutory orders enforcing employment and contractual restraints against them.
AMWU to launch test case on overtime phasing; Purvinas to challenge disqualification; Australia's net migration to drop by 20%, says DIAC; New FWA regulations on delegations; Calculator helps determine small business status; Abolish the ABCC, says ACTU; NSW to develop flexible work guidelines, audit pay equity; Macklin introduces consequential amendments to PPL bill; and Comparison schedule for 2B state awards.
FWA has acceded to an APESMA bid for a scope order to allow professional scientists to negotiate a separate agreement with the Red Cross Blood Service.
Bank of Queensland agents and their employees will revert to the banking modern award after FWA rejected their application to modernise their 22 year-old enterprise award.
ABC Commissioner John Lloyd's five-year reign as head of the building industry watchdog is to end, with Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard - in a move described by the Opposition as "disgraceful" - advising him that he will not be reappointed when his tenure expires in September.
Qantas has launched Federal Court action alleging APESMA made misleading statements in the media exaggerating the effect its members' industrial action would have on the airline's operations, in a novel use of the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions.
Progress in Australia Post bargaining; Fight "instigator" loses job after 24 years; Dismissal complied with Code; HSU mega-branch given green light; Reprieve for Federal Magistrates Court; Calculator helps determine small business status; and Registrations open for Ride to Work Day 2010
