A marathon unfair dismissal case involving a ship's engineer who was sacked for fighting appears to have ended yesterday in two failed appeals to an AIRC Full Bench.
A full bench of the Federal Court has upheld a vicarious liability finding against a Norfolk Island resort over the sexual harassment of one of its employees by another at employer-provided accommodation while both were off duty.
The FSU's long-running battle concerning the Commonwealth Bank shifting workers to new employment conditions in its subsidiary Commsec returned to court today.
The Federal Court has thrown out another attempt by the Building Industry Taskforce to stop the CFMEU's alleged misuse of safety issues to pressure contractors to sign EBAs.
TWU uses safety to protect contractors; Taskforce won't help, says Opposition; LHMU forms alliance with US union; and ABS data shows individual deals at 39.1%.
A full bench of the AIRC has upheld an explosive company's appeal against an earlier finding that a despute existed between it and the CFMEU (mining and energy division), ruling the company's employees were not eligible to be the union's members even though some of them did explosives work on coal mining sites.
Just a week after the Federal Government launched its full-page newspaper advertisements, the Prime Minister, John Howard, has taken the next step in the battle to win public support for his IR proposals - establishing a new taskforce of Coalition members to help sell his message.
The Federal Government has emphatically rejected Opposition claims that award conditions more generous than the proposed federal statutory minimum entitlements will be cut under its second wave changes.