A recruiter's error when offering a job to a candidate added weight to her claim of unfair dismissal, but ultimately didn't convince Fair Work Australia that the position had been misrepresented to her.
Westpac group will pay 9% super contributions during up to 12 months of employees' parental leave, it announced today, while its first enterprise agreement in eight years is up for approval before FWA tomorrow.
ABCC to prosecute construction giant over strike pay; Crean's appointment welcomed; FWA highlights limits of majority support determination; and New independent contractors regulations
Bargaining between offshore oil and gas industry vessel operators and labour-hire providers and maritime unions is beginning to bear fruit, with employers last week lodging with FWA several agreements covering ships' officers.
Long-serving Labor frontbencher and former Opposition Leader and ACTU president Simon Crean is the new Federal Workplace Relations Minister, filling the position vacated after Julia Gillard became the Prime Minister last week.
"Industrial anarchy" could reign if parties refuse to honour industrial bargains, a Federal Court judge has found in requiring Queensland Rail and its subsidiaries to pay the maximum statutory fines for their "flagrant" breaches of major change consultation requirements in their agreements.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow has, as expected, been formally elected as general secretary of the Brussels-based International Trade Union Confederation and will leave the ACTU at the end of the month after a decade in the job.
In an important decision on modern awards, a FWA full bench has today ruled that overtime is not subject to phasing and clarified that employers are generally permitted to absorb modern award increases into employees' over-award payments.
Disruption looms for NSW's train system if the State's 15,000-odd rail workers in coming weeks vote up protected industrial action including strikes of up to 24 hours and bans on collecting fares in a bid to progress their negotiations for a new agreement.
The Federal Government's amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act - introduced into Parliament yesterday - establish breastfeeding as a separate ground of discrimination and extend the existing protections from discrimination on family responsibility grounds.
