Employees in New Zealand will have a statutory entitlement to unpaid meal breaks, paid rest breaks, breastfeeding facilities and unpaid breastfeeding breaks under legislation introduced this month.
In the first decision of its kind, an individual employee has won AIRC orders for a secret ballot for strike action, despite the employer's objections that a union is the driving force behind the bargaining strategy.
The Federal Court will tomorrow conduct a full-day mediation in a bid to end the stoppage at Boeing Commercial Airplanes subsidiary Hawker de Havilland's site in Melbourne, after the company today won an extension of an interlocutory injunction that potentially makes individual workers liable for the company's losses of about $1m a day.
Failure to lodge AWAs costs employer $5,500; Union drops case against employer's refusal to deduct dues; Building company ordered to pay sacked apprentice $5,000 in super and redundancy; and Re-employment for worker sacked after three heavy vehicle crashes.
AIRC sets up award modernisation website, releases list of awards; Deegan to review integrity of 457 visa system; and New head of state a former sex discrimination commissioner.
The Federal Court has ordered Central Queensland University to pay the NTEU $6,600 for failing to properly consult it about staff cuts last year in breach of their collective agreement. An extra $400 in fines is to be paid to the Commonwealth.
Federal Court orders $28,500 in damages and penalties against CFMEU; NSW Government supports $20-a-week increase, as claims made in other States; Correction - Domino's not first on fast food paid maternity leave; Summit background papers available; and Change at top at SA Police Association.
An AIRC full bench has upheld a decision to compensate rather than reinstate a belligerent and obstructive employee, despite accepting that it would have been justified to dismiss her on the grounds of misconduct.
