The Federal Court has ordered the CFMEU to pay $115,000 in penalties and costs for breaching the Trade Practices Act's secondary boycott provisions when it delayed a concrete pour and picketed at a construction site in Perth in 2004.
In an important private dispute resolution ruling that might provide an alternative channel to challenge unfair dismissals under Work Choices, the AIRC has reinstated three employees made redundant by Telstra. It found that flaws in the structure of the telco's HR management mean it is unable to comply with obligations to consult employees and their union about restructuring plans.
Cleaning contractor Consolidated Property Services (Australia) today sought innovative court injunctions to stop the LHMU from making public statements about the company's hygiene standards as part of its industrial campaign for cleaners.
The recent amendments to the Workplace Relations Act and the Independent Contractors Act have received Royal Assent, with most of the changes to the IR legislation taking effect yesterday.
A senior court official who was sacked last year over allegations of sexual harassment has won a conditional reinstatement order after the NSW IRC found his dismissal was too harsh.
Qantas has been ordered to pay a former licensed aircraft mechanical engineer $71,692 after the Federal Magistrates Court accepted that discriminatory remarks made to him at work contributed to his depressive illness.
Revised AWAs being offered by the new owners of failed manufacturer Feltex Carpets have been rejected for a second time by the AIRC as unacceptable alternative employment because they reduce conditions in a current union collective agreement.
St George has begun offering its 8,500 employees interest-free loans of up to $4,000 to purchase ecologically sustainable infrastructure such as rainwater tanks for their home and boosted its paid parental leave from eight weeks to thirteen weeks, in a policy change announced today.
The operative date for the AIRC's flow-on of AFPC increases in minimum wages and allowances to transitional employees subject to applications filed after December 1 will be the date of the order, an AIRC full bench has confirmed.
