Foster's has successfully opposed an LHMU bid for bargaining orders that would have forced it to allow workers at one of its breweries to hold paid mass meetings to discuss their wage negotiations and possible industrial action.
The AMWU and AWU's failure to respond to an employer's revised wages offer made 48 hours before their secret ballot application was listed did not mean they not genuinely trying to reach an agreement, FWA has found. It has also held that the new bargaining regime did not require the unions to disclose the full content of the agreement they were seeking.
Union right to veto deal extensions limited: AIRC; Security guards win 8.5% pay deal; Union gets green light to incorporate award in agreement; and Fair Work Australia research tenders close this week
Fair Work Australia has rejected an employer's argument that an AWA employee is not entitled to protection under the Fair Work Act's unfair dismissal provisions, but has indicated it may apply the 14-day time limit on claims more strictly than under the former laws.
In an important ruling, the NSW Supreme Court has ruled that a recruitment company wasn't entitled to rely on a HR policy introduced four months after a consultant's engagement to withhold $50,000 in commission payments when he left.
FWA rejects expanded preamble to ballot question; Gillard urges States to sign up to Clean Start; Airlite adverse action case discontinued; and High Court could hear Gray appeal
Three employees of a trucking company who quit their jobs and the next day started a rival business were under no duty to reveal their plans to their employer, the Queensland Supreme Court has ruled.
Fielding rules out compromise on BCCI Act; APESMA shatters award-free accountants myth; English test for teachers not discriminatory: tribunal; ABCC seeks penalties over stalled concrete pour; and Correction on cross-border employment claim
Fair Work Australia's Senior Deputy President Peter Richards has refused to order costs against an unfair dismissal applicant's solicitor for his "cavalier" and "dilatory" conduct in failing to comply with directions, but has ordered him to produce a copy of the tribunal's scathing ruling if he seeks leave to appear in future.
