Qantas appeared before Fair Work Australia today to defend TWU claims it discriminated against 14 women who lost their jobs in a restructure, as the ACTU called on employers to improve pay and opportunities for women.
The Federal Court has found Loy Yang Power Management Pty Ltd made a senior engineer redundant and should therefore reduce by 37% the tax it withheld from a $200,000 settlement of his discrimination and unlawful dismissal claims against the company.
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A senior member of Fair Work Australia has accepted an unfair dismissal application lodged four days late, in a ruling that appears to lower the threshold for allowing out-of-time claims.
A NSW coal mine has successfully applied to "in-source" employees free from the agreement that covered them, while in another matter Fair Work Australia has ruled that transferring employees should be free to join the union of their choice regardless of pre-existing demarcations in their new workplace.
Fair Work Australia has allowed a former product manager with a New Zealand-based employer to proceed with his unfair dismissal claim, in a decision that clarifies the scope of the tribunal's jurisdiction.
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Fair Work Australia has rejected an ABCC bid to cancel the entry permit of a CFMEU organiser who had been convicted of fraud against a major construction company.
Fair Work Australia has approved in the public interest an agreement covering nearly 14,000 employees of embattled childcare provider ABC Learning, despite acknowledging it would probably fail the no disadvantage test.
Compulsory arbitration is not an "essential ingredient" for a valid dispute resolution clause, a Fair Work Australia full bench has ruled, in a decision that secures the validity of hundreds of agreements not conferring the tribunal with that power.
