A Tasmanian hotel owner who was last year fined $4,950 for AWA duress was yesterday penalised again over pressure put on another young worker at a different hotel to sign an individual contract.
CEPU and CPSU members employed at Telstra today took the first strike action in what is likely to be a hard fought industrial campaign at the national telco.
A lawyer sacked by the Aboriginal Legal Service in WA has won the right to pursue his unfair dismissal claim, after the state's Industrial Appeal Court ruled the organisation is not a constitutional corporation.
A Brisbane bus driver who left out a note that was inadvertently read by an indigenous colleague in which she stated she didn't want to "pick up all those spear chuckers with prams" has failed to convince a full bench of the AIRC to overturn an earlier finding that her sacking was fair.
A Labor-dominated Senate committee has called for changes that would make it easier for workers to establish they have been discriminated against under the Sex Discrimination Act.
The CFMEU construction division WA branch is the only major union in WA opposing a 10-point agreement designed to avoid demarcation disputes between the state's unions.
The operation of good faith bargaining orders under the Fair Work Bill represents uncharted territory that could extend to blocking employer moves to replace their workforce during a lockout, DEEWR officials said today.
The DEEWR has produced a document comparing the Fair Work Bill's right of entry requirements with those under Work Choices, the pre-2005 Workplace Relations Act and the former Labor Government's IR Act.
DEEWR officials this morning revealed to a Senate committee that the Fair Work Bill's explanatory memorandum was "not entirely accurate" in explaining the application of the new no disadvantage test to greenfields agreements, as the Coalition vowed that it wouldn't stand in the way of legislative provisions that would give Work Choices "a decent burial".
A call centre company's efforts to find new jobs for 56 redundant employees did not mean it could avoid paying them severance pay, the Federal Court has found.
