An employer must wait until the 22nd day after giving employees notice of their representation rights before asking them to vote on a proposed agreement, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
FWA has dismissed a LHMU application for bargaining orders against a club that refused it access to a meeting with employees on agreement-making and award modernisation, holding that communication in the workforce should be encouraged, not regulated or monopolised.
More than 1500 construction workers on Woodside's Pluto LNG project have resisted compromise offers from the employer – including free iPods – to end their 48-hour strike over proposed changes to accommodation arrangements.
New Coalition Leader Tony Abbott today gave a strong indication that he would not follow his Opposition predecessors in seeking to neutralise IR as an issue, repeating their declaration that Work Choices dead but continuing that the Howard Government's policies delivered jobs growth and record low strike rates.
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A long-serving union official and skills development pioneer, a former senior HR manager and a leading labour market researcher have been appointed to Fair Work Australia's minimum wage panel.
How do you ensure your enterprise agreement doesn't fall at the first FWA hurdle? A series of recent rulings have shed light on the requirements employers and their advisors must meet when lodging agreements for approval.
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The CEO of the company subject to the Fair Work Act's first good faith bargaining order has used the legislation's adverse action provisions to win an interlocutory injunction stopping the company from sacking her over bargaining-related bullying and harassment allegations.
NTEU members didn't need to commence within 30 days every aspect of a ban they authorised in a secret ballot, Fair Work Australia has ruled in rejecting a s418 bid by the University of South Australia to halt the action.
