Arnott’s Biscuits has successfully defended its move to suspend three employees for a month instead of summarily dismissing them, after the Federal Court rejected the workers' challenge under the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has clarified the threshold for appealing unfair dismissal rulings under the Fair Work Act, after it rejected a pharmaceutical company's appeal despite finding it might have taken different approach to the first instance decision-maker on some key issues.
Fair Work Australia has rejected a mining company's bid to reduce an employee's redundancy payout on the basis that it had secured him suitable alternative employment, while in another ruling a labour-hire agency successfully argued it had genuinely made two part-time employees redundant.
Two employees have succeeded in their unfair dismissal claims against tyre retailer Beaurepaires, after FWA found that while their error in fitting the wrong tyre was a valid reason for termination, the dismissals were harsh overall.
The sacking of a TWU official involved in a violent altercation with a co-worker was fair and was unrelated to his involvement in a hard-fought bargaining dispute, FWA has found.
A mining company was entitled to rely on a handwriting expert's analysis of racist remarks scrawled on a crib room whiteboard in summarily dismissing a long-standing employee, Fair Work Australia has found.
A senior manager and his employer breached freedom of association laws when they refused to pay a receptionist award rates and told her to resign if she wanted to pursue the matter, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
A new policy research paper sounds a note of caution on governments championing "green" jobs, saying they are a product of good environmental policy but that the reverse isn't true - jobs labelled as green don't necessarily deliver environmental benefits.
About 80% of workers would have their superannuation managed in simple, low-cost "MySuper" accounts that, along with planned back-office changes, would boost retirement savings by an average of $40,000 or 7% after 37 years in the workforce, under a proposal in the Cooper Review's final report, released by the Federal Government today.
