FWA has granted a union's scope order application after finding it would better promote fair and efficient bargaining than competing scope arrangements pursued by the employer.
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Unions are not compelled to go through with notified industrial action, but repeatedly using misleading notices as an industrial tactic might constitute bad faith, a Fair Work Australia full bench has found.
In an important ruling for employers that house their workers, FWA has declined to include the value of employer-provided accommodation when calculating whether an employee's earnings exceed the high-income threshold for access to unfair dismissal remedies.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has flagged the imminent release of his party's IR policy and mounted a stout defence of his parental leave plan in a wide-ranging speech today.
McDonald's Australia managing director Catriona Noble and SDA national secretary Joe de Bruyn attended a hearing before FWA in Sydney yesterday, as their advocates took a final opportunity to convince the tribunal to approve the fast food giant's first national enterprise agreement.
In Fair Work Australia's first consideration of a new agreement termination provision in the Fair Work Act, it has scrapped uranium miner ERA's 1996 deal, a decade after it expired.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard used a visit to WA today to criticise "some in this State" for failing to show sufficient regard for her new IR laws, warning that the Federal Government's determination to ensure they were upheld should not be underestimated.
The AiG has urged FWA to reject the ACTU's submission on modernising enterprise awards, maintaining the peak body is putting the same arguments to the tribunal that parliament and the Government have already refused to accept.
Preparing for an appearance before FWA? If so, Deputy President Peter Sams has drawn on his 12 years of experience on industrial tribunals plus 20 years from the other side to develop a list of hints for advocates which, he says, can't guarantee a win but can at least keep the bench onside along the way.
