The Senate has formally required the head of FWA, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, to appear for questioning at future Estimates hearings, after the Coalition this afternoon won backing from Senators Steve Fielding and Nick Xenophon for him to do so.
The Queensland Government has introduced a bill into parliament referring the State's IR powers to Canberra and revealed that any change to the Fair Work laws will be vulnerable to a veto if it is opposed by two-thirds of referring States and Territories.
The AWU has failed in its bid to secure a protected industrial action ballot of its members at Alcoa's Pinjarra alumina refinery in WA after Fair Work Australia found it was seeking unlawful and non-permitted content.
Support for Burrow for key international job; Coalition won't oppose State referral bill subject to inquiry; FWO to go after TWU over Qantas strike; and FWA reserves Australia Post ballot decision.
Fair Work Australia has for the second time rejected an LHMU application for a scope order to require Coca-Cola Amatil Australia to negotiate a single agreement across its South Australian operations.
An employer has failed in a bid to rely on the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code to justify the summary sacking of a long-serving maintenance employee.
Dismissal-related claims were already on the rise in 2008-09, according to new figures released by the AIRC, suggesting the Fair Work laws might be only part of the reason for the increase in claims in the second half of this year.
In an important ruling on the new unfair dismissal high income threshold, FWA has found that at least part of a dismissed employee's living away from home allowance was compensation, not earnings, and therefore did not tip him over the limit on making claims.
CEPU again seeks ballot at Australia Post; Bromberg appointed to Federal Court; Unions takes stand on asylum seekers; Chronology tracks the rise of Fair Work; and Digest available for Telstra long service leave bill
