Victoria's Court of Appeal has awarded a chief information officer more than $477,000 because his employer failed to honour a verbal agreement about his entitlements.
The Fair Work Commission has this afternoon terminated industrial action at Esso's Bass Strait oil and gas operations, heading off protected strikes that were due to start on Friday.
An internal investigations unit will replace 7-Eleven's wage repayment panel, while biometric thumb-printing, CCTV and facial recognition will complement a centralised payroll system, as part of a new compliance deed between the retailer and the FWO.
Planned protected industrial action at Esso Australia's Bass Strait gas operations would cause an estimated $1.2 billion in damage to the Victorian economy, the Fair Work Commission has heard.
Productivity in the private sector grew strongly at the same time as real unit labour costs fell in the year to September, according to ABS data released today.
A police officer who claimed he tested positive to cannabis because he absorbed it through his skin during a drug raid has failed to overturn his sacking.
The SDA has asked the FWC to put on hold proceedings to terminate the 2011 Coles Supermarkets enterprise agreement while it negotiates a new deal to cover more than 70,000 employees.
FWC President Iain Ross has today refused Employment Minister Michaelia Cash's request that he constitute a full bench to review Deputy President Jeff Lawrence's decision to grant CEPU NSW postal & telecommunications branch secretary Jim Metcher an entry permit.
Queensland has a new regime for adverse action and bullying, its electoral commission will no longer have to conduct postal ballots before protected industrial action and good faith bargaining provisions have been strengthened, under new IR legislation that has passed State Parliament.
