A Melbourne company's failure to consult before sacking its workforce has cost it significantly, with the unions on site using the breach to leverage more generous redundancy pay-outs than their EA provided.
WA's IR reforms are expected to finally pass this afternoon, after they went through the Upper House in the early hours of this morning with only minor amendment.
The Senate has again stymied the Federal Government's plans to exempt small businesses from unfair dismissal laws, and now won't consider WR Minister Tony Abbott's bid to ban bargaining fees until the next parliamentary session.
A Tasmanian police sergeant sacked after he was seen performing oral sex on a woman in a hotel coffee lounge late at night after a heavy drinking session has won his job back, in an important decision on after-hours behaviour.
The Productivity Commission has recommended significant IR changes to the car industry, but has stopped well short of adopting the Government's call to link future assistance to workplace reform.
A train driver at BHP Billiton Iron Ore who was sacked for harassing another worker in the middle of the heated individual contracts dispute in the Pilbara has won his job back.
Mitsubishi Motors Australia says a flexible labour deal with labour hire company Adecco has helped it to boost productivity and improve its financial performance by $200m over 12 months..
More than 6,000 employees at CSIRO will receive a 15.5% pay rise over three years and access to an innovative new provision aimed at improving redeployment.
The IRC has rejected an application by hardware chain Magnet Mart to certify its non-union agreement after it found a valid majority of employees had not supported the deal and that it failed the no-disadvantage test.
