The first certified agreement for the fast-growing Boost Juice Bars chain provides up to five days a year of unpaid study leave to its predominantly under-21 workforce and emphasises employee training in a bid to give workers portable skills and improve the national consistency of its products.
The Queensland IRC has refused to count a company car and bonuses as wages, rejecting an employer's bid to throw out an unfair contract case because a manager's pay exceeded the statutory salary cap.
The coal mining union is threatening to walk off the job, after two mining companies launched challenges to the legitimacy of the NSW OHS Act, arguing it is unconstitutional and that the State IRC has no power to find employers guilty of criminal offences.
Employers can still mount a defence based on the inherent requirements of a job, even if they have not spelt out the requirements before refusing employment to someone with a disability, a tribunal has ruled.
A barrister's history of representing unions did not mean there could be a reasonable apprehension that he would be biased in arbitrating an industrial dispute between a demolition company and Victoria's Bracks Government, the State's Supreme Court has held.
An AIRC full bench has overturned a radical ruling that it would be against the public interest to terminate expired certified agreements covering Esso contractors because of the negative effects of proposed new rosters on workers and their families.
Three main contenders are lining up to replace Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Leigh Hubbard, who has announced today he will be leaving in April, after a decade in the job.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews says he is keen to consult on all aspects of workplace reform, despite his office telling Workplace Express last week that the Cole bill would be put to Parliament this year with no changes at all.
The CFMEU (construction division) is getting a mixed response from employers to its bid to bed down new agreements ahead of the Coalition gaining control of the Senate in July.
An employer has failed to win costs for an unfair termination case despite a former employee pleading guilty to three charges over conduct for which she was sacked, while in other recent dismissal cases tribunals have refused to accept a resignation letter written by an employer and an employer's dismissal of a sick employee.
