The Government's failure to appoint candidates with an employer background to Fair Work Australia's bench was not due to a lack of applicants, information provided by DEEWR as part of the Senate Estimates process has revealed.
The NUW has won what are believed to be the first orders to inspect non-member records and to waive notice periods for entering an employer’s premises, following an ex parte hearing in Adelaide on October 13.
FWA head Justice Geoffrey Giudice told Senate Estimates yesterday that Opposition questions on a full bench matter were putting him in a "very embarrassing position", and he refused to comment further when the line of questioning continued.
The ABCC will take greater responsibility for protecting employee rights in the building and construction industry, according to its new head, Leigh Johns, who also confirmed he would preside over compulsory examinations and that a Queensland worker has refused to attend one.
Three quarters of the unfair dismissal claims Fair Work Australia has conciliated recently involved the employer paying the employee money, with the most common payment in the $2,000-to-$4,000 range but 1% involving sums of between $30,000 and $40,000, the tribunal has told Senate Estimates hearings today..
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld the validity of a clause in an insurance broker's employment contract that contained nine separate post-employment restraints.
The FWO has launched legal action against two labour hire providers, their employer client and both companies' directors for allegedly engaging school-age kids as "Odco"-style contractors, when in fact they were employees.
ACTU leader Jeff Lawrence has today ridiculed employer claims about wage breakouts, saying labour costs and the wages share of national income are at record lows at the same time as company profits are growing ten times faster than wages.
