Vale Jeff Shaw; FWA's Whelan moving to federal magistracy; Government suspends some temporary skilled migration visas; and FWA member bemoans agreement applications filled out like "notes on back of beer coaster".
A major security company that provided an incomplete copy of its proposed enterprise agreement to employees and made a critical error in the notice informing them when the ballot closed has failed to have its enterprise agreement approved.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has upheld a finding that Telstra was justified in sacking an employee for providing the CEPU with confidential documents revealing its non-union bargaining strategy and its success in individualising its employment arrangements and de-unionising its workforce.
The LHMU will seek pay rises for about 60,000 aged care employees – possibly through arbitration – after becoming the first union seeking to utilise the Fair Work Act's low-paid bargaining stream.
Fair Work Australia has this afternoon rejected a bid by IBM Australia Limited for a stay - pending an appeal - on a majority support declaration in favour of the ASU.
Xstrata subsidiary Ulan Coal Mines has successfully challenged a single FWA member's ruling that 10 workers it dismissed last year during a restructure were not genuinely made redundant.
FWA refuses to count HR diploma course as part of employee's income; Bench upholds sacking for breach of "responsible drinking" policy; BHPB entity's sacking of worker who failed breath test was reasonable; Employment ended when contract expired; and Qantas gets nod for legal representation.
Breastfeeding will be established as a separate ground of discrimination and further protection introduced from discrimination on the grounds of family responsibilities under reforms the Federal Government announced yesterday.
Take-home pay orders can be sought for classes of employees, before pay cuts actually occur, and that take into account variations to modern awards under new regulations released yesterday by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard.
The AEU has failed in its bid to challenge the registration of a rival union under a new provision introduced in the Fair Work reforms, after the Federal Court found it operated retrospectively to ensure the validity of the union.
