Fair Work Australia has rejected a café worker's unfair dismissal claim after finding his employer had a reasonable belief he had stolen money from the till, in a ruling that confirms employers need not have a valid reason when relying on the Small Business Dismissal Code's serious misconduct rules.
ABC employees have overwhelmingly endorsed a new three-year agreement that provides a 10.5% wage rise over three years - with 0.5% of that paid only in the final year as a temporary allowance.
$850,000 payout to Fraser-Kirk; Employer association and union leaders join climate roundtables; Pizza Hut award modernisation process to continue; and NBN Co makes second deal.
Abetz bags Greens IR policy; Fairfax Community News journos to strike; $25,000 fine for CFMEU over Victorian stopwork; and WA IRC intervenes in hospitals disputes
The mining union has sought OECD intervention over Xstrata's IR practices, including an alleged management policy of avoiding collective bargaining, that it says breach the international organisation's guidelines.
Employer groups have slammed as "retrograde" NSW Premier Kristina Keneally's bid for a standing exemption from the Fair Work Act's ban on project agreements, while Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the State Government should stick to the deal it made last year on OHS reform.
Crown Casino and the LHMU have reached an eleventh hour in-principle agreement for what will be the largest single-site union agreement in the country just ahead of a planned strike that would have coincided with a major Melbourne race day.
Employers have to notify each worker of the specific pay deductions they face before docking them for implementing partial work bans, Fair Work Australia has ruled, in finding Alcoa met the Fair Work Act's new notice requirements for only a portion of its workforce during a dispute last year.
A mineworker dismissed after a night of drinking caused his blood-alcohol levels to be too high when he started work the next day has failed in his unfair dismissal claim.
The Federal Court has struck out part of publicity coordinator Kristy Fraser-Kirk's sexual harassment claim against retailer David Jones and former chief executive Mark McInnes and rejected her bid for records of any bills he incurred for Sydney hotel rooms.
