The Government has released its amendments to the Fair Work Bill, with the Senate to debate the changes tomorrow. Meanwhile, the first of two transitional bills are set to be introduced to Parliament on Thursday.
In their proposed amendments to the Fair Work Bill, the Greens are pushing to outlaw the offering of IFAs as a condition of employment and requiring that they be lodged with FWA, to axe the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code and to give the FWA powers to review employer refusals of requests for flexible work.
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Industrial action that threatened to shut down Brisbane's passenger rail system looks to have been averted after the employer and unions reached in-principle agreement on a new wage deal.
The Federal Government's flagged amendments to the Fair Work Bill's transfer of business provisions are a significant improvement and will be widely used by employers, according to Blake Dawson senior associate Michael Tamvakologos.
ETU seeks ILO verdict on Fair Work Bill; AIRC upholds dismissal for breach of no-smoking policy; Holden executives to take 10% pay cut; New wage deal for Queensland electrical contractors; and Days lost to industrial action reach three-year high.
As Senate negotiations over the Fair Work Bill continue, the Government today dismissed claims that its legislation would add to the worsening unemployment numbers; the Opposition set 25 full-time-equivalent workers as its small business definition for unfair dismissal purposes; and the ACCI said it was considering arguing for no increase to minimum wages this year, while the Government confirmed it would again not put a dollar figure in its submission but would state that employment should be the priority.
NUW general secretary Charlie Donnelly has won Federal Court orders to stop the union's Queensland officials poaching members for a possible breakaway state branch.
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In an important ruling, the NSW Supreme Court has found a multinational retail optometry business is entitled to nominal damages after an employee breached her employment contract when she infringed the company's copyright by emailing documents to her husband, who worked for a competitor.
