Tahmoor appeal to test good faith bargaining obligations; Employers call for deal on building bill; Real labour costs down; and Genuine redundancy appeal next month
A full bench of FWA has rejected the reasoning behind last year's Ford decision, in which the majority of a different full bench held that bargaining hadn't taken place because the company refused to accept the scope of the agreement sought by the unions. It has also ruled that employers' success in securing single employer authorisations did not prevent unions from pursuing deals with different scopes.
Workers at global coal giant Peabody Energy's North Goonyella underground coal mine in Central Queensland have voted up a new two-year deal delivering an 8% pay increase, after intervention from Fair Work Australia enabled the company and the mining union to resolve their long-running bargaining dispute.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has today upheld a finding that the meat union didn't meet the prerequisites for securing a scope order at Woolworths because it failed to bargain in good faith and discuss its concerns with the rival shop union.
Qantas appeared before Fair Work Australia today to defend TWU claims it discriminated against 14 women who lost their jobs in a restructure, as the ACTU called on employers to improve pay and opportunities for women.
The Federal Court has found Loy Yang Power Management Pty Ltd made a senior engineer redundant and should therefore reduce by 37% the tax it withheld from a $200,000 settlement of his discrimination and unlawful dismissal claims against the company.
Court rejects first attempted use of OHS unlawful dismissal prohibition; Disability support organisation a trading corporation, Federal Court rules; and Award modernisation on ACTU agenda as ASU slams airline ground staff ruling
A senior member of Fair Work Australia has accepted an unfair dismissal application lodged four days late, in a ruling that appears to lower the threshold for allowing out-of-time claims.
A NSW coal mine has successfully applied to "in-source" employees free from the agreement that covered them, while in another matter Fair Work Australia has ruled that transferring employees should be free to join the union of their choice regardless of pre-existing demarcations in their new workplace.
Fair Work Australia has allowed a former product manager with a New Zealand-based employer to proceed with his unfair dismissal claim, in a decision that clarifies the scope of the tribunal's jurisdiction.
