Fair Work Australia has made its first majority support determination, for the Victorian employees of funeral services company Invocare, and ordered a majority support ballot of some 600 employees at power company TRUenergy.
DEEWR has re-launched the long-running national work and family awards as the National Work-Life Balance Awards and demoted its longstanding partners, the ACCI and BCA, to judges.
Union seeks financial data from Virgin Blue; Fair Work agreements start to flow; State branches seek stay of NUW restructure; Ark Tribe in court again; and Immigration a "competent authority" for unlawful termination
The NUW has won a good faith bargaining order to stop employees voting on an agreement their employer proposed after just two short negotiation sessions with the union.
Fair Work Australia has refused to approve a enterprise agreement under the Fair Work Act because the employer failed to meet the "mandatory prerequisite" of advising employees of their right to be represented by a bargaining agent.
A shift in focus from dispute resolution to prevention could help change the way IR is practiced in Australia and deliver a new wave of productivity growth, according to a new discussion paper commissioned by the Business Council of Australia.
Fair Work Australia has in an interim ruling rejected an employer argument that it does not have the power to make good faith bargaining orders delaying an employee ballot to approve an enterprise agreement.
A full court of the South Australian Supreme Court has found that a teacher's contract of employment did not contain an implied term of mutual trust and confidence because it was already heavily regulated, making such a term unnecessary. It has overturned his earlier damages payout of almost $400,000.
