A beauty therapy salon unlawfully discriminated against a pregnant worker when it made her redundant after unilaterally changing her employment status from full-time to part-time, a tribunal has found.
Workers at a third major offshore oil and gas vessel operator have voted to take protected strike action, while the MUA has deferred a planned 48-hour strike at Total Marine Services in the hope of reaching agreement with the employer tomorrow.
In an important ruling, FWA has ruled that an Xstrata subsidiary's dismissal of 10 mineworkers wasn't a genuine redundancy, because it still required their jobs to be performed.
WA Premier Colin Barnett has joined employer groups in urging as many as 1500 construction workers on Woodside's Pluto LNG project to end their strike over accommodation arrangements in the remote region and return to work.
In what is understood to be a first for a federal public service agreement, FWO employees on maternity leave will continue to receive superannuation contributions during any unpaid part of their break.
A Melbourne-based technology company has won injunctions against two former senior employees to prevent them using confidential product information to help launch their own business, but the Federal Court has rejected its bid for damages to compensate it for lost business opportunities.
Retired Federal Court judge Murray Wilcox QC - whose recommendations underpinned the Federal Government's construction sector IR bill - and former NUW national secretary Greg Sword are among those recognised in yesterday's Australia Day awards.
Legislation could be required to ensure the validity of some enterprise agreements if an appeal fails to overturn a recent Fair Work Australia decision requiring all agreements to contain a clause providing for the arbitration of disputes.
Fair Work Australia in two recent decisions has shed light on the steps unions must take to successfully seek a majority support determination, including the evidence required and the significance of non-permitted content.
