Fair Work Australia has rejected an employer's argument that an AWA employee is not entitled to protection under the Fair Work Act's unfair dismissal provisions, but has indicated it may apply the 14-day time limit on claims more strictly than under the former laws.
In an important ruling, the NSW Supreme Court has ruled that a recruitment company wasn't entitled to rely on a HR policy introduced four months after a consultant's engagement to withhold $50,000 in commission payments when he left.
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Three employees of a trucking company who quit their jobs and the next day started a rival business were under no duty to reveal their plans to their employer, the Queensland Supreme Court has ruled.
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Fair Work Australia's Senior Deputy President Peter Richards has refused to order costs against an unfair dismissal applicant's solicitor for his "cavalier" and "dilatory" conduct in failing to comply with directions, but has ordered him to produce a copy of the tribunal's scathing ruling if he seeks leave to appear in future.
The Productivity Commission has rejected "prescriptive regulatory measures" such as pay caps to curb executive remuneration excesses, saying that after considering alternative measures put to its inquiry, it is "not convinced that the way forward is to by-pass the central role of boards in remuneration-setting".
Optus employees have voted up a new three-year enterprise agreement that delivers guaranteed CPI-linked pay increases, improved redundancy entitlements and an arbitration role for Fair Work Australia.
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