An employer has failed in a bid to rely on the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code to justify the summary sacking of a long-serving maintenance employee.
Dismissal-related claims were already on the rise in 2008-09, according to new figures released by the AIRC, suggesting the Fair Work laws might be only part of the reason for the increase in claims in the second half of this year.
In an important ruling on the new unfair dismissal high income threshold, FWA has found that at least part of a dismissed employee's living away from home allowance was compensation, not earnings, and therefore did not tip him over the limit on making claims.
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As the Senate prepares to debate Labor's ABCC-axing building industry IR legislation, the construction cop's head, John Lloyd, has warned that introducing a weak regulator will lead to unlawful conduct spreading through the industry and affecting other parts of the economy like a "slow-moving cancer".
Fair Work Australia has today granted the MUA's application for a second protected action ballot of its members at Total Marine Services, after a full bench overturned the first ballot order because the union wasn't genuinely trying to reach an agreement.
The Federal Magistrates Court has granted a lawyer partial leave to appear in a small claims matter and rejected an employee's unlawful termination claim in its first published Fair Work Act decisions.
The AMWU and AWU, which earlier this year put aside traditional hostilities to form a manufacturing alliance, will co-host a conference in Canberra on Wednesday where they will call on business and government to work with unions to ensure the growth of the manufacturing sector following the global financial crisis.
Workplace Relations Minister Gillard has made her first declarations under the Fair Work Act to allow multiple employers to bargain for a single enterprise agreement.
