A South Australian company whose redundant workers were taken on by another employer has failed in its bid to have its award severance obligations varied or set aside, with FWA holding it didn't have jurisdiction to make such a ruling under the federal IR legislation's transitional arrangements.
In a landmark ruling, Fair Work Australia has given the green light to the introduction of random drug and alcohol testing – but with crucial safeguards - at Caltex's Kurnell refinery.
FWO conducting 20 investigations into union conduct; "Unnerving" practitioner criticised in costs decision; CFMEU (NSW) branch locks in Multiplex deal; Access predicts jobless recovery; and Slater and Gordon wins LHMU legal work in Victoria
In an important ruling on after-hours conduct, Fair Work Australia has upheld a Lion Nathan subsidiary's dismissal - to protect the company's reputation - of a worker who drove his private car when three times over the alcohol limit during his leisure time.
Building workers in Victoria remain the most likely to be subjected by the ABCC to a compulsory examination, a new report reveals; and the Federal Government will spend $100 million to address a massive fall in apprentice numbers triggered by the global financial crisis.
In a completely different approach from FWA on the proposed modern Miscellaneous Award, Adelaide University's Professor Andrew Stewart has proposed defining its coverage using a pay threshold based on average weekly earnings.
Employer that failed to get legal advice slugged $60,000 over AWA drafting error; Hydro Tasmania deal overtakes ETU scope order bid; Butcher fined $52,000 for underpaying apprentice; Submissions close today for review of equal opportunity laws and agency; and LHMU seeks to reverse non-union deal at Intercontinental Hotel.
In what is understood to be its first published determination under the new federal unfair dismissal laws, Fair Work Australia has awarded a sales employee $9,522 compensation after finding that his employer acted unreasonably in sacking him, despite its lack of HR expertise.
The NUW's open-ended notice for protected four-hour strikes at CSL yesterday failed to specify when and where the action would occur or whether there would be single or consecutive stoppages, Fair Work Australia found yesterday in issuing a s418 order to halt the action.
The AiG has analysed Fair Work Australia's bargaining decisions made during the first 100 days of the new IR regime, and says the key principles that have emerged include that parties have the right to bargain hard and that industrial action cannot be taken prematurely.
