Public trust, an effective worker voice and improved digital literacy are all needed to ensure the best results in the digital transformation currently underway, a seminar has heard.
The FWO has published a guide to the newly-declared voluntary code for small businesses - said to be a blueprint for employers of all sizes - to protect themselves from criminal liability under Closing Loopholes wage theft provisions from January 1.
Unprotected industrial action undermines collective negotiations because it is "directly contrary" to the Fair Work Act's bargaining regime, Deputy President Gerard Boyce has held in his reasons for finding the UWU's "unlawful" picketing of Woolworths distribution centres breached its good faith bargaining obligations.
A full Federal Court has refused to overturn a finding that a former Qantas employee possessed the necessary mental capacity when she signed a deed in 2008 settling her claims of s-x and disability discrimination.
COSBOA is seeking the most significant change to the statutory exclusion from employment protections based on business size since Work Choices almost 20 years ago, while it also wants to broaden its reach to exempt small businesses from multi-employer bargaining, complying with casual conversion and delegates' rights obligations and restrictions on fixed-term contracts.
The FWC has refused an employer's application to stop allegedly unprotected action, finding that two off-duty employees' distribution of campaign materials did not amount to industrial action because it did not alter their performance of work, or disrupt other workers.
The FWO has further tightened the screws on franchisors after the Federal Court agreed that it fell to Bakers Delight to disprove that it is liable for half of a liquidated franchisee's alleged underpayments of more than $1.2 million.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has appointed senior FWC executive Kate Scarlett as a general member of the new Administrative Review Tribunal, while Victorian IR Minister and former ACTU assistant secretary Tim Pallas is stepping down and leaving parliament and former FWC president Iain Ross is to serve on the Reserve Bank's critical monetary policy board.
A full Federal Court has dismissed a National Rugby League referee's claim that the game wrongly denied him an opportunity to pursue his dismissal dispute because his employment ended at the conclusion of an "outer limits" contract.
The Federal Court has today restrained HSU Victorian No 1 branch secretary Diana Asmar - accused of illegitimate reimbursements and engaging in a cashback scheme - from performing her duties, clearing the way for her deputy, David Eden, to temporarily take up the role.
