Yesterday’s FWC casuals decision will help to prevent the use of UK-style "zero hours" engagements in Australia, according to La Trobe University academic Jill Murray.
Lawyers representing a doctor investigated following the deaths of two babies are calling on her employer not to sack her after a judge this week refused to grant an interim injunction because the hospital's processes had "so many apparent holes" he could not foresee its board dismissing her.
The FWC has confidentially resolved a dispute involving a Mission Australia program manager allegedly made redundant without consultation while she was on parental leave.
An HR services company says it forwarded complaints about a competitor to the FWO for more than two years before the watchdog issued a statement this week declaring that it has no affiliation with it.
A five-member FWC full bench has ruled today that modern awards should enable casual employees to elect to convert to full-time or part-time employment, subject to certain rules and restrictions.
New book examines mining and IR in the Pilbara; PBO highlights "downside risk" in wages projections; and AWU lauds sales of Arrium to British "good corporate citizens".
The WA IRC has dismissed as a "try on" a certified accountant's attempt to pursue his former employer for payment of time-off-in-lieu he claimed he had accumulated.
A self-represented worker who is pursuing a bullying claim in the FWC would be placed at "further disadvantage" if her employer and two managers already being assisted by in-house HR specialists won the right to legal representation, the tribunal has ruled.
The Federal Court has expedited the union application to quash the Fair Work Commission's cuts to penalty rates, but a three-day hearing will nevertheless start no earlier than September 18.
Coles has begun bargaining for a new enterprise agreement covering about 75,000 supermarket employees, with the SDA and the rival Retail and Fast Food Workers Union both involved in negotiations for the first time.
