The ASU is recommending that Jetstar's customer service and administration workers vote yes from today on a new deal delivering annual pay rises of 3%, while the TWU is endorsing a proposed agreement for cabin crew that it says contains significant improvements including the back-payment of increases to May last year.
An entry dispute at a Queensland textile plant has exposed subterranean tensions during the merger of the CFMEU, TCFU and MUA, raising concerns about possible internal coverage disputes in future.
The Federal Circuit Court has taken a broad view of what amounts to an employment-related complaint in ordering an employer to pay more than $150,000 in compensation and penalties for its adverse action when it sacked a senior employee who upbraided his chief executive for failing to pay outstanding invoices to a key subcontractor that had downed tools in protest.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a personal assistant who became entangled in a company power play, finding that her employer's belief that she lied to cover a director's tardiness satisfied the requirements of the small business code.
The ACTU will seek to increase affiliation fees by 2% a year at its triennial Congress in July, leaving it up to individual unions to make further contributions to its Change the Rules campaign.
Classifying a property manager as a director on her engagement didn't remove her from the coverage of the real estate industry award, the FWC has ruled in allowing her to proceed with an unfair dismissal claim.
In its pursuit of a former economics professor for allegedly paying his employees as little as $10 an hour, the FWO is also seeking an injunction to restrain him from future breaches.
In a rare case turning on an employee's loss of trust in his employer rather than the other way around, the FWC has stepped back from ordering the reinstatement of a worker found to have been unfairly dismissed, despite describing it as the most "compelling" remedy.
The FWC has ordered a franchisee to compensate an unfairly dismissed employee who contacted head office to report her boss for drunkenness and drink driving in accordance with company whistleblowing provisions.
