In a ruling that might have implications for thousands of employers, an on-call employee has won $18,000 in backpay after a magistrate found he should have been paid an allowance.
Long-serving federal IRC Commissioner Patricia Leary's appointment as President of the Tasmanian Industrial Commission has been confirmed. At the same time, she has been promoted to Deputy President of the federal Commission.
The NUW has failed in its bid to make its NSW branch pay for costs incurred in the 1998 Davids' dispute. But it has won the ability to deflect back onto the maverick branch the potentially crippling penalties still outstanding from an associated contempt finding.
On the eve of a 48-hour strike by CFMEU members at BHP's Illawarra coal mines, the union faces considerable fines after the Federal Court found it in contempt for failing to heed orders to stop strike action at the pits in February this year.
The High Court has quashed a finding that an employer had no right to sack a State manager who had used company labour and material without authorisation to build his own house.
The AMWU and one of its organisers - both found guilty of coercion by a full bench of the Federal Court in August - have been fined a total of just $600.
Yallourn Energy will know next Wednesday whether its workforce has accepted an enterprise agreement that will end the 18-month-old bargaining dispute at its La Trobe Valley power station.
The NSW Government plans to re-introduce its "contractor deeming" legislation in the first session of Parliament next year, according to a spokesperson for IR Minister John Della Bosca.
A full bench of the IRC has refused a Federal Government request to develop both guidelines on simplifying award superannuation provisions and a framework award super clause.
