FWO launches another prosecution against TWU; Regulations address Coalition concerns on shipping; Productivity Commission looks into work choices of married women; AWU wins majority support at metal manufacturer; and Jury duty for lawyers on the cards
A Queensland IR firm has written to Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard urgently requesting that she produce regulations to clarify which of the State's community sector employers have to pay the significant wage increases flowing from last year's Queensland IRC pay equity decisions.
A bargaining representative can seek non-permitted content and at the same time still be genuinely trying to reach agreement, a Fair Work Australia full bench has ruled.
Regulations that require FWA to conduct the BOOT for each year of an agreement's term if the relevant modern award contains transitional provisions have significantly moved the goal posts for post-January 1 deals, according to an IR practitioner.
Enterprise agreements must include a dispute resolution term that enables disputes about the agreement or NES to be settled by arbitration, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
Thiess Degremont has secured an enterprise agreement for work on the Wonthaggi desalination plant in Victoria, but while the AWU has dropped its bid for a representation order to settle the demarcations on the project, underlying tensions remain in its relationship with the CFMEU.
Employer fined $20,000 for underpayments; Schmitke continues as Coalition IR policy advisor; Change to Fair Work Australia Rules; Federal Court orders injunction against CFMEU and McDonald; and Court clears way for McJannett to pursue defamation case against former newspaper editor
Fair Work Australia has ordered Lion Nathan subsidiary Boag's Brewing to reinstate a worker it dismissed after wrongly deciding he was unable to perform the inherent requirements of his job based on a consultant's flawed assessment.
Fair Work Australia has ordered a mining cartage contractor to pay a truck driver two weeks compensation, after finding it sacked him prematurely for failing a drug test and should have given him a fortnight to provide a clean result.
