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A Coalition Government would introduce a six months paid parental leave scheme, funded by increasing the taxes levied on large companies, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott announced today.
A security employer was not required to follow-up with a worker who quit in emotional circumstances, but stuck to her guns after calming down, to check whether she had really intended to resign, Fair Work Australia has found.
Fair Work Australia has indicated it will rule on key matters of principle in considering a bid by Bank of Queensland franchisees to modernise their enterprise award, the first such application under the new IR laws.
Fair Work Australia has made its first scope order to require a RAAF contractor to bargain with the AMWU for separate deals covering its employees at airbases in Victoria and Western Australia.
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A full bench of FWA has rejected the reasoning behind last year's Ford decision, in which the majority of a different full bench held that bargaining hadn't taken place because the company refused to accept the scope of the agreement sought by the unions. It has also ruled that employers' success in securing single employer authorisations did not prevent unions from pursuing deals with different scopes.
Workers at global coal giant Peabody Energy's North Goonyella underground coal mine in Central Queensland have voted up a new two-year deal delivering an 8% pay increase, after intervention from Fair Work Australia enabled the company and the mining union to resolve their long-running bargaining dispute.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has today upheld a finding that the meat union didn't meet the prerequisites for securing a scope order at Woolworths because it failed to bargain in good faith and discuss its concerns with the rival shop union.
