Engineers refuse Virgin media "gag" bid as precondition for bargaining; FWA agrees not to transfer agreement to new employer; and Tribe hearing adjourned to December 18.
The meatworkers’ union, which is seeking a scope order so it can have a separate agreement for meat departments at Woolworths' supermarkets, has failed in a bid to win access to confidential notes made by negotiators during bargaining between the retailer and the SDA.
The vast bulk of discrimination complaints continue to be employment-related, with incidents at work accounting for 91% of sex discrimination complaints made in the year ending June 2009, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
The test for giving sacked employees extra time to lodge unfair dismissal claims is tougher now than it was under the Workplace Relations Act, Fair Work Australia has held.
The CEPU has again failed to secure a protected action ballot of its members at Australia Post, after Fair Work Australia found it was continuing to seek non-permitted content on the use contractors that caused a full bench to strike down its first ballot bid.
A union application to inspect an employer's documents under the old IR legislation may not have survived the tighter test under the Fair Work Act, FWA has held.
Majority support determinations cannot be used to resolve disputes about the scope of proposed agreements, a Fair Work Australia full bench has ruled, in a decision that clarifies the Fair Work Act's bargaining framework.
Fair Work Australia has received its first application for a modern enterprise award, the institution's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has revealed.
