The MBA says updated research released today that links labour productivity growth in the construction sector with the inception of the ABCC and its predecessor bolsters the case for retaining the “strong and effective cop on the beat”.
The CPSU (PSU) has written to Tax Commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo asking him to reverse a warning he has issued to a union delegate for emailing his colleagues about bargaining, saying it is breaches both federal government policy and the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions.
Mining union members employed in Rio Tinto's Pilbara rail division could be prevented from taking protected industrial action until late 2013, after Fair Work Australia yesterday declined to make a ballot order while a five-year non-union deal covering other workers in the division continues to operate.
In what appears to be the first determination on the issue, Fair Work Australia has ruled that it is lawful for a salary sacrifice arrangement to reduce an employee's pay to a level below the award minimum.
A former Woolworths executive has failed to secure compensation for a depressive illness she claimed to have suffered as a result of her sacking, in a ruling that confirms the law on the implied duty of good faith and confidence.
Fair Work Australia has suspended industrial action by a group of about 50 fire equipment technicians employed by Tyco Australia in south-east Queensland, but the ETU is considering an appeal, saying that if the ruling stands, no-one will be able to take protected industrial action.
VECCI today sought an extension that would delay Fair Work Australia hearing its minimum hours award variation case until April next year, while the federal government emerged from its caretaker hiatus to give its position on the tribunal's proposed review of trainee and apprentice wages.
The MBA has made what is understood to be the first application for FWA to refer a legal question arising under the Fair Work Act directly to the Federal Court.
FWA has upheld the sacking of two coalminers for s--ually harassing and victimising a third male underground worker, holding that their conduct was "reprehensible and intolerable" and the "hypocrisy and arrogance of the arguments cobbled together in an attempt to explain and defend the indefensible is astonishing".
The Federal Court has upheld a finding that a manager made redundant during the global financial crisis wasn't entitled to damages for his employer's representation that he would have the job until he retired.
