Fair Work Australia has found, in an unfair dismissal ruling, that it is "beyond belief" that a major company's HR manager notified her superiors that there was no basis to a sales manager's claims that he was being bullied and harassed, despite failing to conduct an investigation.
Clerical employees at The Age newspaper have walked out today over what they say is an inadequate 2.25% pay offer and the employer's refusal to budge on their demand for a watered-down flexibility clause.
Fair Work Australia has rejected several enterprise agreements that sought to give employees the option of nominating their preferred work hours in exchange for giving up overtime or other penalty rates.
Rio Tinto has agreed to bargain with the CFMEU (mining and energy division) for an agreement to cover most employees in its rail operations division, breaking a drought on union collective bargaining at the miner's Pilbara iron ore operations that has lasted more than a decade.
Impasse a green light for agreement vote; Majority support bid succeeds at Xstrata; CFMEU bid for Baulderstone action ballot not premature: FWA; and FWA upholds majority support petition for Pluto LNG contractor
A Federal Court full court has overturned a ruling that could have left open to challenge hundreds of collective agreements made in the last days of the Workplace Relations Act.
University breached agreement by failing to advertise position, Court finds; When I'm 64.2 - retirement plans revealed in new ABS data; NSW government bus drivers go out; Correction, Gooley is ex-MEAA; and Company agrees to union-employee meetings, after union brings "capricious conduct" case.
Women began working in production roles in Queensland coal mines in the late '70s "as a public relations exercise rather than a genuine willingness to embrace equal opportunity", according to a new university study. But by last year they accounted for 6.3% of the industry's blue-collar workers, until their predominantly casual and contractor status meant they were first to go when the Global Financial Crisis hit.
