A long-serving union official and skills development pioneer, a former senior HR manager and a leading labour market researcher have been appointed to Fair Work Australia's minimum wage panel.
How do you ensure your enterprise agreement doesn't fall at the first FWA hurdle? A series of recent rulings have shed light on the requirements employers and their advisors must meet when lodging agreements for approval.
D-day looms for referral bill; Kearney throws hat into the ring for ACTU top job; MUA defends Farstad action; and Victorian employers rapidly adopting formal work/family policies
The CEO of the company subject to the Fair Work Act's first good faith bargaining order has used the legislation's adverse action provisions to win an interlocutory injunction stopping the company from sacking her over bargaining-related bullying and harassment allegations.
NTEU members didn't need to commence within 30 days every aspect of a ban they authorised in a secret ballot, Fair Work Australia has ruled in rejecting a s418 bid by the University of South Australia to halt the action.
The Coalition and ACCI must "develop some backbone" and take the fight up to the Government on individual statutory agreements, according to AMMA chief executive Steve Knott.
A second offshore oil and gas vessel operator could face protected industrial action after workers at Total Marine Services voted strongly in favour seven-day strikes, work bans and other action in a ballot this week.
The Federal Magistrates Court has ordered a company and two senior executives to pay $23,000 in penalties for trying to force an employee to vary her AWA so she would return from maternity leave in a different job that paid 25% less.
A bargaining representative can apply to extend the post-ballot period for taking protected industrial action, even after the initial 30 days have passed, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
A survey of 8,000 employees indicates there is little basis to the widely-held view that employers introduced a form of “de facto work sharing” to ride out the economic downturn that led to fewer job losses,according to a Workplace Research Centre study released today.
