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Fair Work Australia has rejected an ABCC bid to cancel the entry permit of a CFMEU organiser who had been convicted of fraud against a major construction company.
Fair Work Australia has approved in the public interest an agreement covering nearly 14,000 employees of embattled childcare provider ABC Learning, despite acknowledging it would probably fail the no disadvantage test.
Compulsory arbitration is not an "essential ingredient" for a valid dispute resolution clause, a Fair Work Australia full bench has ruled, in a decision that secures the validity of hundreds of agreements not conferring the tribunal with that power.
Woolworths has successfully appealed a Fair Work Australia ruling that enterprise agreements must include a clause providing for the arbitration of disputes over their operation.
Individual flexibility arrangements cannot be used to vary the terms of the agreements under which they are made, Fair Work Australia has found, in a ruling that could limit the flexibility available to employers and employees under the new IR laws.
The Federal Magistrates Court will in June hear a case brought by a female pilot formerly employed by a Qantas subsidiary who claims she was discriminated against when a male trainer subjected her to sexist comments.
FWA has today heard a company's bid to use the new federal scope order rules to enforce its decision to switch from national to local bargaining - and the union's attempt to resist it.
Productivity Commission employees have won a wage rise of up to 5.5% over 18 months under a new pay deal taking effect today, but unusually for a public sector agency the rise is entirely contingent on meeting performance standards.
