A full bench of the Federal Court has dismissed the University of Western Australia's claim on the rights to a cancer treatment developed by its former professor of surgery, ruling there was no implied term in his contract of employment that gave it ownership of his inventions.
The Federal Court has rejected an ABCC bid for an injunction against the CFMEU after the union promised to comply with an earlier FWA order; and a labour-hire company has been fined for lodging an enterprise agreement for certification without having employees vote to approve the deal.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended award modernisation against accusations from unions and employer groups that their members will be disadvantaged despite proposed transitional arrangements.
The Federal Government has effectively set a 3% cap on annual pay rises across the Australian public service over the next two years under a new bargaining framework that also, for the first time, enshrines workplace delegates' rights.
Changes to key entitlements including wages, casual and part-time loadings and penalty rates in many modern awards will be deferred until mid-2010 to help employers cope with new phasing-in arrangements, the AIRC has ruled.
The High Court has upheld an employee's appeal and ordered the AIRC to reconsider his case after finding successive tribunals and courts wrongly applied the doctrine of repudiation in rejecting his unfair dismissal claim.
The NSW IRC’s President, Justice Roger Boland, has urged the Federal Government, in its negotiations with the State Government, to make his members dual appointees so they can work in both federal and state jurisdictions, while Attorney-General Robert McClelland emphasised the Federal Government’s commitment to aligning domestic IR laws with international standards.
ABS National Accounts data indicates hours have fallen but productivity is up; and the AIRC has today released its important ruling on how transitional arrangements will apply to priority and stage 2 awards.
