A court has found the Commonwealth Bank did not breach a former state sales manager's AWA when it dismissed him over an alleged incident with a female probationary employee he was mentoring.
The CFMEU (construction and general division) has largely failed in its bid to overturn key elements of the entry regime at Woodside's Pluto LNG project, after Fair Work Australia rejected its arguments that employer representatives were intimidating workers and unreasonably limiting where it could meet with workers.
The FWO, which today come under fire from the Opposition for launching a retailers compliance campaign ahead of a Fair Work Australia decision on the sector's modern award, is creating a new branch to focus exclusively on large, national enterprises and franchise operations, according to ombudsman Nick Wilson.
Telstra acted fairly in dismissing a senior HR advisor for dealing improperly with a confidential document that indicated she faced redundancy in a proposed restructure, Fair Work Australia has found.
FWA has granted a union's scope order application after finding it would better promote fair and efficient bargaining than competing scope arrangements pursued by the employer.
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Unions are not compelled to go through with notified industrial action, but repeatedly using misleading notices as an industrial tactic might constitute bad faith, a Fair Work Australia full bench has found.
In an important ruling for employers that house their workers, FWA has declined to include the value of employer-provided accommodation when calculating whether an employee's earnings exceed the high-income threshold for access to unfair dismissal remedies.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has flagged the imminent release of his party's IR policy and mounted a stout defence of his parental leave plan in a wide-ranging speech today.
