A controversial new miscellaneous award and a dedicated restaurant industry award – as directed by Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard - are among the stage four modern award exposure drafts the AIRC has published today.
A manager with flour miller Manildra did not breach his contractual or fiduciary duties when he schemed to buy and operate a rival mill while still employed by the company, the NSW Supreme Court has found.
Three month delay on politicians' 3% pay increase; Former CEO can't serve claims in England, says Federal Court; SDP Lacy off to Christmas and Cocos Island; and Full bench statement on award modernisation.
A Fair Work Australia full bench yesterday reserved its decision on a bid by offshore oil and gas logistics company Total Marine Services to have the tribunal impose a higher threshold for granting protected action ballots.
The model transitional provisions in many modern awards could pose a major administrative challenge for some employers, according to Adelaide University Professor of Law, Andrew Stewart.
A Queensland refinery will be able to "in-source" its maintenance workforce free from their existing enterprise agreement, after Fair Work Australia for the first time approved an employer bid for an exemption from the Fair Work Act's new transfer of business provisions.
Complex transitional arrangements for redundancy and modern award pay rates will create difficulties for some employers in moving to the Fair Work safety net next year, according to University of Adelaide law professor Andrew Stewart.
Annual wage rises in private sector enterprise agreements eased to a still-strong 4% in the June quarter, as employers rushed to lodge a record number of non-union deals before the Fair Work Act took effect, new DEEWR data reveals.
The AMWU has failed in its bid for bargaining orders against Coates Hire, after Fair Work Australia rejected its argument that the employer breached good faith bargaining obligations by "surface bargaining" and unilaterally conducting an agreement ballot that coincided with the union's secret ballot to authorise industrial action.
The AIRC has granted the AMWU's application for a protected ballot of employees at a Heinz factory in Victoria, where, like at Campbell's last week, the individual flexibility clause to be included in the agreement for the site is one of the issues in dispute.
