LHMU wins scope order for single enterprise agreement; FWA rejects premature ballot application; Strikes stopped despite uncertainty over economic harm; and FWA grants ballot order, but puts unions on notice
The Federal Court has imposed fines totalling $67,500 on four unions and four organisers over attempts - including protests that led to property damage - to coerce subcontractors on a Victorian gas plant upgrade to sign union collective deals.
Rio Tinto's five-year non-union Pilbara agreement it made with just a handful of employees ahead of the Fair Work Act taking effect has survived a Federal Court challenge by the CFMEU (mining & energy division).
Breastfeeding breaks for public servants; Full bench adopts Glaxo public interest ruling; NSW rail dispute rolls on; and McInnes to contest harassment claim.
John Holland has failed to extend a greenfields agreement it reached with five unions covering Ansett's engineering operations, after the Victorian Supreme Court found a side deal enabling the extension was not enforceable.
ACTU calls on Coalition to reveal IR detail; Qantas and AIPA on again on August 19; Husband denied leave to represent his wife in discrimination proceedings; and Vale David Hoffman
A sales manager at a publishing company who left to join a direct competitor after a restructure left her in a less senior position has been restrained by the NSW Supreme Court from disclosing confidential information and from working on one of her new employer's titles, but the court rejected her former employer's argument that she should not be allowed take the job with its rival for a year.
Coalition paid parental leave scheme to start in 2012; FWA overturns "temper tantrum" dismissal; Hospital clerks stop work; Flexibility benefits of casual work a myth: Kearney; and David Jones to defend harassment claim.
"Sham" redundancy selection process irrelevant; Defence official sacked for "extreme language"; Worker who submitted invoices was an employee; and Christmas not an exceptional circumstance.
