McDonald's Australia managing director Catriona Noble and SDA national secretary Joe de Bruyn attended a hearing before FWA in Sydney yesterday, as their advocates took a final opportunity to convince the tribunal to approve the fast food giant's first national enterprise agreement.
In Fair Work Australia's first consideration of a new agreement termination provision in the Fair Work Act, it has scrapped uranium miner ERA's 1996 deal, a decade after it expired.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard used a visit to WA today to criticise "some in this State" for failing to show sufficient regard for her new IR laws, warning that the Federal Government's determination to ensure they were upheld should not be underestimated.
The AiG has urged FWA to reject the ACTU's submission on modernising enterprise awards, maintaining the peak body is putting the same arguments to the tribunal that parliament and the Government have already refused to accept.
Preparing for an appearance before FWA? If so, Deputy President Peter Sams has drawn on his 12 years of experience on industrial tribunals plus 20 years from the other side to develop a list of hints for advocates which, he says, can't guarantee a win but can at least keep the bench onside along the way.
Six prison officers threatened with disciplinary action after criticising senior managers in comments posted on Facebook have successfully challenged the validity of an internal investigation into their conduct.
The Federal Court has rejected a union delegate's claim that his employer disciplined him because of his union role and activity, in what is believed to be the first substantive ruling under the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions.
The ANF is seeking orders to protect about 5000 aged care nurses in NSW and Queensland from cuts to their earnings under modern awards, in what looms as the first major test of the Fair Work Act's take-home pay provisions.
Former High Court judge Mary Gaudron has called for the establishment of a unified labour or employment court to deal all with employer-employee matters, saying it was now constitutionally possible to do so with minimum cooperation from the States.
McDonald's Australia will on Monday appear before Fair Work Australia in a last-ditch bid to convince it to approve its first national enterprise agreement, which covers about 80,000 workers.
