Qube Logistics has today taken the first steps toward pursuing about 30 employees over bans on loading and unloading containers at the Port Botany facility of its half-owned operation, Patrick Stevedores.
FWC President Iain Ross is seeking feedback on a series of questions of law he has drafted to possibly refer to the Federal Court, to clarify whether the family violence leave full bench can make a final decision after the departure of its presiding member, the former Vice President Graeme Watson.
Swedish-inspired stationery retailer kikki-K will drop its push to utilise a clause in its new enterprise agreement that enables it to reducepenalty rates on Sundays and public holidays when the Fair Work Commission's controversial award review decision comes into force.
The High Court will next month hear a special leave application by the ABCC as it seeks to overturn a decision stymieing its push to prohibit unions from paying fines imposed on officials for unlawful conduct.
In a case in which an IR consultant swapped sides to support a dismissed employee and evidence emerged of possible fraud by the employer, the FWC has ordered a family-run day care centre to pay its former director more than $30,000 after finding her dismissal "capricious, fanciful and prejudiced".
A regional airline will next month ask the High Court to grant special leave for it to challenge a ruling that allowed a union to pursue an adverse action claim on behalf of non-members who were "merely eligible" for membership.
The Federal Court today ordered Seven Network (Operations) and Seven West Media to participate in mediation of the adverse action claims brought by former executive assistant Amber Harrison under the Fair Work Act.
FWC Deputy President Anna Booth told Patrick and the MUA today that she is prepared to sit until midnight next Wednesday to hear and determine the stevedore's application for s418 orders to halt alleged industrial action at its Port Botany container terminal, while the company claims it will pursue the union for losses of up to half a million dollars a day.
Half a million retail and fast food workers employed under agreements negotiated by the SDA are more than $300 million a year worse off than they would be under awards, a Senate inquiry has been told.
