Liquidators seeking to recover almost $67 million in taxpayer funds paid to former Queensland Nickel employees have avoided a "chase for Skase" scenario after they yesterday served papers on counsel for holidaying ex-director Clive Palmer and 20 others.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has made three new deputy president appointments to the Fair Work Commission - two with a strong resource sector employer background and the third from employer clientele law firm Seyfarth Shaw.
The SDA is pursuing a Good Guys discount appliance store and the chain's HR manager in the Federal Court for allegedly taking adverse action against a salesperson when it denied his union representative the opportunity to speak during a performance review.
The FWC will next month hold a preliminary hearing into the proposed merger of the CFMEU, MUA and TCFU, but resources sector employers have already indicated they might seek to be heard because of the alleged threat to the stability of the supply chain "from pit to port".
An appeal court has found that restraint of trade provisions in employment contracts are unenforceable if the employer repudiates the contract, after an accountancy firm lost its bid to stop a professional employee setting up shop in Tasmania.
Former Seven West Media executive assistant Amber Harrison today told the NSW Supreme Court the company had pursued a "brutal" and unnecessary case against her that she will "never have the resources to pay for".
The NUW will tell the FWC this month that a pharmaceuticals giant offered five new recruits a $1000 "inducement" to accept an agreement for a distribution centre being built in Queensland, as it challenges its approval on the basis that it fails the BOOT and was struck with an unfairly chosen, non-representative group.
FWC intervenes in Worksafe dispute; Bench quashes "no stake" agreement approval; Truck driver put employer's compliance with road rules at risk; FWC refuses employer bid for secret hearings; Crucial apprentice pay case goes to court next month; and New secretary for NSW IR.
A Coca-Cola employee who threatened to fight a colleague in the workplace carpark and made coarse gestures suggesting he was a company stooge has lost his unfair dismissal bid.
Seven West Media today blocked former executive assistant Amber Harrison from reading a statement to the NSW Supreme Court, as she took up an invitation to appear by phone after her involvement in yesterday's proceedings went no further than commenting via Twitter.
