New transmission of business rules introduced as part of the Fair Work reforms are making it more difficult for outsourced employees to hold on to their jobs and imposing unworkable restrictions on employers, according to the AiG, which has called for significant changes to the laws.
FWA has refused to certify two deals that provide a 12% loading to employees who take unpaid rather than paid annual and sick leave, while noting that an earlier decision by a different commissioner "reached no similar conclusion".
Refuellers at Sydney airport will walk off the job for 24-hours next week if talks on Monday don't resolve a bargaining dispute between the TWU and Airport Fuel Services over what the union claims is an attempt to lower future pay by introducing a two-tiered workforce.
The sacking of a TWU official involved in a violent altercation with a co-worker was fair and was unrelated to his involvement in a hard-fought bargaining dispute, FWA has found.
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Ulan Coal Mines did not meet the genuine redundancy test for six mineworkers because it should have redeployed them at related Xstrata mines, FWA has found, in the latest installment in a case that that began with another finding - overturned by a full bench - that the redundancies weren't genuine.
Fashion chain Cotton On has posted an apology on its Facebook page and provided $278,000 in back-pay to more than 3000 employees it admits it failed to pay for attending training sessions and staff meetings outside of work hours.
An employee who got off to a bad start with the new owners of the meat processing company where he had worked for 17 years and a club supervisor with 10 years' service who was laid off a month after another employee was hired were both genuinely made redundant, FWA has found.
Telstra has warned its employees against joining conference calls uninvited, in the wake of CEPU allegations that a small number of the telco's managers had secretly dialled-in to union phone hook-ups.
The FWO has, for the first time, intervened to support a company being forced into liquidation in order to ensure employees who lost their jobs when a factory closed were eligible for GEERS.
