Fair Work Australia has reinstated a truck driver and former TWU delegate who was sacked after receiving three warnings for alleged unsafe driving and site safety breaches.
The Federal Magistrates Court has reinstated a postal worker, after finding Australia Post took adverse action against him when it terminated his employment because of his right to access workers’ compensation following a workplace injury and discriminated against him because of the physical disability arising from the injury.
A company director who faces dismissal at a shareholder meeting over claims he allegedly retained, stored and forwarded pornographic materials on the company's IT system, broke personal trading rules by downloading confidential company information and provided material support to a potential competitor has been refused an interlocutory injunction by the NSW Supreme Court to delay the decision.
VCAT has found Nissan Motor Co liable for compensation for the pain and suffering of a senior mechanical engineer with caring responsibilities who had his flexible working hours curtailed when the company restructured and put him on a new employment contract.
The AWU - which declared in April that it wouldn’t support the Government’s climate change response if one job was lost - will reveal its position next Monday on the “clean energy” package, which includes hefty industry compensation and assistance measures.
FWA has allowed an employee to be represented by a solicitor in her unfair dismissal case and three nursing union members to be represented by an external lawyer in a redundancy dispute.
Campbell, Corney appointed to ABCC Deputy Commisioner roles; Opposition stymies Government bid to end Giudice Estimates appearances; FWO releases best practice guide to parental leave; Federal Government introduces OHS harmonisation legislation.
The Queensland IRC will on August 12 hear union bids for a two-tier wage increase for state award workers, while in Tasmania employers and unions are seeking a flow-on of the federal minimum wage ruling.
