Tasmania's Legislative Council has passed a Government bill designed to curtail rights to engage in workplace-disrupting pickets and protests, but only after removing mandatory jail terms for repeat offenders.
An ATO manager's conviction for indecency against a minor constituted a breach of the APS code of conduct that justified his dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
DP World is free to resume urine testing under its national drug and alcohol policy after a five-member Fair Work Commission full bench yesterday upheld its challenge to a deputy president's ruling that its enterprise agreements excluded the method.
Advice from the Fair Work Ombudsman has prompted the Fair Work Commission to set up a full bench to iron out inconsistencies between modern award provisions and the national employment standards, as part of its 4-yearly review.
In what the UFU has hailed as a "huge victory", the Fair Work Commission has refused to terminate two enterprise agreements covering Melbourne's firefighters, finding it would have triggered an "appreciable and unmatched shift" in bargaining power to their employer.
A Federal Court full bench has upheld a finding that the main retail award applies to delivery drivers employed by the online arm of supermarket giant Coles.
The Federal Court has fined a company almost $200,000 for underpaying its aged care workers more than $2.5m over a five year period, finding that its unlawful employment practices might have given it an unfair competitive advantage.
The Federal Court has ordered a barrister to pay an employer's costs in a failed adverse action appeal, finding that they were incurred as a result of her "poor judgment".
The Abbott Government will try its luck with a fourth major IR Bill before the end of the year, despite the first three having been blocked or held up in the Senate.