Energy Australia is pushing the Federal Court to limit the impact of an arbitration by the Fair Work Commission of payment of overtime to casuals at its Yallourn power station and mine in Victoria.
The Government has won passage of its "vulnerable workers" legislation, after accepting Opposition amendments that enable the FWO to exercise coercive powers to gather evidence of breaches, overseen by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Employer's text didn't dismiss employee; Correct ABN speeds application amendment; Bench clears way for challenge to authority on fixed-term contracts.
Business SA has lost its bid for a charitable purpose payroll tax exemption plus a refund of more than $2.6 million already paid, after a court found its primary purpose is providing policy advocacy to benefit businesses rather than advancing trade and commerce.
Boral subsidiary De Martin & Gasparini took unlawful adverse action against its employees when it threatened to make them redundant if they refused to vary their agreement to make it code-compliant, the Federal Court ruled today.
A transport employer has found itself in a complex legal quagmire, after failing to gain an interlocutory injunction in the Federal Court to restrain an FWC full bench from further dealing with its matter.
The FWC has rejected a contentious aviation sector agreement after finding its split shifts, overtime, car parking and penalty rate arrangements made it fail the BOOT and that its exclusion of casuals meant the group of employees covered by it was not fairly chosen.
A Coles project manager who alleges he was micromanaged and dismissed for taking leave because of a knee injury was in fact shown the door for making a series of inappropriate s-xual comments, the supermarket giant claims.
