AMWU to launch test case on overtime phasing; Purvinas to challenge disqualification; Australia's net migration to drop by 20%, says DIAC; New FWA regulations on delegations; Calculator helps determine small business status; Abolish the ABCC, says ACTU; NSW to develop flexible work guidelines, audit pay equity; Macklin introduces consequential amendments to PPL bill; and Comparison schedule for 2B state awards.
FWA has acceded to an APESMA bid for a scope order to allow professional scientists to negotiate a separate agreement with the Red Cross Blood Service.
Bank of Queensland agents and their employees will revert to the banking modern award after FWA rejected their application to modernise their 22 year-old enterprise award.
ABC Commissioner John Lloyd's five-year reign as head of the building industry watchdog is to end, with Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard - in a move described by the Opposition as "disgraceful" - advising him that he will not be reappointed when his tenure expires in September.
Qantas has launched Federal Court action alleging APESMA made misleading statements in the media exaggerating the effect its members' industrial action would have on the airline's operations, in a novel use of the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions.
Progress in Australia Post bargaining; Fight "instigator" loses job after 24 years; Dismissal complied with Code; HSU mega-branch given green light; Reprieve for Federal Magistrates Court; Calculator helps determine small business status; and Registrations open for Ride to Work Day 2010
A tribunal has awarded $25,000 in damages - including $6000 in aggravated damages - to a female sales manager who was victimised by a work colleague in retaliation for a sexual harassment complaint against him and other male employees.
FWA to review telephone conciliation; One in three workers have flexible work deals; Union had "reasonable belief" labour-hire clause was permitted: FWA; One letter not "genuinely trying"; and ACTU guns for Abbott in new ads
Fair Work Australia has emphasised that it has no discretion when considering approving an enterprise agreement to waive compliance with mandatory pre-approval requirements such as giving representation rights notices to employees.
The AMWU and ETU failed to bargain in good faith when they launched a scope order bid just an hour after employees were asked to vote on a proposed agreement, FWA has found.
