The Administrative Decisions Tribunal has struck off an IR barrister from the roll of legal practitioners, after an earlier finding that he was guilty of misleading the AIRC.
The NSW Supreme Court has found restraints in a high-paid broker’s employment contract are only binding for six months, despite clauses in the contract providing that he could be put on gardening leave for a longer period.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard says she is concerned about the impact on small business of the model award redundancy clause and will put her position to the AIRC.
A union application for a ballot of Telstra’s entire workforce will go ahead tomorrow after AIRC President Justice Geoffrey Giudice refused to grant a stay order sought by the company.
The Geelong Magistrates court has today set aside two days in December for the trial of CFMEU official Noel Washington, who has been charged with refusing to attend a compulsory ABCC interview over what occurred at a union meeting.
The AIRC's seven-member award modernisation full bench has today published exposure drafts of the 14 priority awards. The Commission has drafted only one award each for the retail, hospital and manufacturing sectors; set a general 25% loading for casuals; drafted a model redundancy clause for small business; modified the model flexibility clause in once instance only; and did not make the awards binding on organisations.
A presidential member of the AIRC has clarified the scope of the Commission's powers under the transitional IR laws to vary and extend pre-Work Choices agreements.
The Federal Court has dismissed an application by Telstra to prevent unions from making what the company claimed were misleading statements about a non-union offer it made to its employees.
This week's NSW Court of Appeal ruling on employers' implied duty of good faith and fair dealing was one of the cases Clayton Utz partner Joe Catanzariti referred to when he told a Gold Coast conference that while the post-election focus had been on the Federal Government's legislative IR plans, recent common law developments had important implications for employee rights.
An AMWU bid to prosecute a truck trailer manufacturer for allegedly refusing to recognise it as a bargaining agent is set to go before the Federal Court early next month.
