A Fair Work Australia full bench has rejected both employer group and union bids to vary key modern awards to ensure nationally consistent penalties apply to work performed on Christmas Day.
An employer has successfully varied its enterprise agreement to reduce minimum shift lengths for part of its workforce, after Fair Work Australia found the change was consistent with the public interest and BOOT.
Parramatta Leagues Club's sacking of its former chief financial officer for issuing an unauthorised $39,000 cheque just after a board change that resulted in the mid-season dumping of long-serving CEO Denis Fitzgerald was not unfair, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
ANZ will soon become the last of the big four banks to make an enterprise agreement under the Fair Work Act, after employees yesterday overwhelmingly endorsed a new two-year deal delivering annual pay increases of up to 4%.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rebuffed lobbying from the ACTU executive for further IR reforms, but says she respects the union movement and has a positive view of union membership.
Increased income inequality in recent decades didn't mean those at the middle or very bottom had been cheated but that a relatively small group at the top had done "extraordinarily" well for themselves, according to economics columnist Ross Gittins.
Labour costs jumped sharply while labour productivity improved slightly in the September quarter, according to ABS national accounts data revealed today. Meanwhile, revised estimates for the June quarter provide new impetus for the ACTU's campaign for workers to gain a larger share of the economy's fruits, with the profits share rising to the second highest level on record.
A tribunal has found that an employer that conceded it had a "huggy" workplace was vicariously liable for the sexual harassment of a male employee by a female co-worker who repeatedly gave him "full body" hugs despite his protests.
Fair Work Australia has upheld MSS Security's dismissal of a long-serving in-house recruitment and training coordinator for failing to comply with a direction to stop using an external recruitment company and then concealing his actions.
