Employers are increasingly making undertakings in a bid to have agreements approved, but senior IR lawyers have raised concerns about a lack of consistency and transparency in the way Fair Work Australia is dealing with the practice.
Fair Work Australia has affirmed a notice issued to Australia Post by a Comcare investigator, directing it to take further steps to assess and improve the safety of its new postal delivery vans.
An employee sacked for breaching the Australian Rail Track Corporation's drug and alcohol policy has been reinstated by Fair Work Australia, after it found insufficient evidence that he had been consuming beer while driving the employer's vehicle during working hours.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has found a trucking company was justified in sacking a truck driver after a covert tracking device revealed he had purportedly been speeding on 24 occasions on a single trip, at up to 130kmh.
A federal agency has been ordered to reinstate an employee it dismissed after deciding her severe depressive illness meant she was medically unfit to perform her job.
Lack of regard for under-21s sinks agreement; Workers hired after notice must be given vote; Agreements must not include "inappropriate" common law duties and; "Conditional" employees cannot make agreements
Fair Work Australia has made a bargaining order against one of the nation's largest employers, the Commonwealth Bank, after finding it acted in bad faith when it awarded unilateral pay increases to its employees while at the same time refusing to put a pay offer on the table in negotiations with the FSU.
In a rare example of the ABCC arguing that right of entry laws were wrongly used against a union rather than by one, a full bench of the Federal Court has upheld the watchdog's appeal against an earlier finding that two CFMEU officials acted improperly in seeking access to a site to investigate an OHS complaint.
