An employer that fears it will be "commercially crippled" if a competitor is allowed to operate under its enterprise agreement has failed in a challenge to the deal's approval, but FWA has left the door open for rivals to contest agreement approvals in some circumstances.
Kennedy and Roberts elected to NUW leadership roles; ABC childcare centres change hands; IR advisor left me in the lurch, says employer; Most believe Abbott will bring back Work Choices; and Super comes out of wages, not profits, says Treasury head.
A court has slammed a Queensland employer's "reprehensible" conduct and ordered it to pay a $11,000 penalty to the LHMU after it deliberately ignored the union's appointment as a bargaining agent and refused to consult it before making an agreement with its employees.
Some 26,000 Westpac group employees will vote for the first time in eight years on an enterprise agreement, after the company and FSU announced this morning that they had achieved an in-principle deal.
Pay a bond before appeal, Federal Court tells sacked employee; Lengthy meeting not enough to show genuinely trying, says FWA; and Company launches fly-free week.
An empowered FWA is at the heart of a bureaucratic bargaining process geared towards making employers and employees agree "whether they really want to or not", according to industrial barrister Frank Parry SC.
FWA has quashed an earlier ruling that a brewery's sacking of a worker on restricted duties was unfair, holding that when assessing whether an employee can perform the inherent requirements of a job, it is the full position - not a modified one - that has to be considered.
Toyota agrees to 3% deal; ABCC asks ACTU to intervene in union dispute; Finance Sector Union leadership returned; FWA fixes award coverage loophole; Coalition introduces paid parental leave amendments; and Sydney IR barristers authors of new online employment law guide
Employers of high income workers who have entered into annual earnings guarantees that exclude them from modern award coverage have been reminded to "think again" if they believed those workers no longer had unfair dismissal rights; while a straw poll of the resources sector has revealed an overwhelming reluctance to allow any external review of decisions to refuse flexible work requests.
Two directors of accounting firm BDO have been prevented from departing to a recently-established rival after the Victorian Supreme Court made interlocutory orders enforcing employment and contractual restraints against them.
