Small business employees are being deterred from raising issues with their employer because they fear for their jobs, according to a report released by Victorian IR minister Rob Hulls today.
The NSW Industrial Court has rejected a challenge to its jurisdiction to consider the fairness of restraint clauses, and found that it was harsh for a company to restrain one of its former senior executives for 12 months.
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The first company to take legal action against individual employees under the Work Choices laws will withdraw it as part of an agreement with the AMWU, the union said today.
Employers' record-keeping obligations under Work Choices have been delayed for six months and sick leave penalties banned in regulations announced by the Federal Government today.
The Federal Court will next week begin hearing a shop assistant's claim for damages for unlawful termination after she questioned her employer's alleged failure to pay superannuation and penalties.
The militant Workers First group that won control of the AMWU's Victorian branch in the late 1990s has disbanded and made a pact with the union's national leadership under which Victorian secretary Dave Oliver will take over the national secretary's job if incumbent Doug Cameron goes to the Senate and former Workers First officials will control the Victorian branch.
The Federal Court today ordered nearly 300 maintenance workers at Toyota's Altona factory in Victoria to stop a three-day strike in breach of a s496 order issued by the AIRC.
With employers facing fines of up to $33,000 for lodging agreements containing prohibited content, they have asked the OEA since Work Choices became law to conduct preliminary reviews of more than 1,800 deals – a process unions claim is complicating agreement-making and resulting in provisions being removed unnecessarily.
