Former Village Roadshow executive seeks $148m payout; AIRC quashes Head Hunters agreement; CFMEU must respond to Taskforce coercion allegations, court rules; Senior AIRC member says Commission needs to fully consider issue of whether agreement clauses pertain to the employment relationship; Commission reinstates worker who failed drug test; and International IR conference in Sydney in 2009.
The WA IRC has found that unions have the right to choose where they hold meetings on an employer's premises, ruling that a high school should not prevent officials from using its staff room for union business.
Low employee demand for casual conversion, says labour supplier; ACTU open to flexibility but not cost-cutting at Qantas; Abbott reiterates plans to reintroduce termination of employment bill; and Della Bosca says bill to remedy Dymocks decision on his agenda for next year.
In a decision that will lead the exclusion of more high-earners from the NSW unfair dismissal jurisdiction, a full bench has ruled that the unfair dismissal remuneration cap is based on earnings at the time of dismissal, rather than during the previous 12 months.
The NSW IRC has ordered an insolvent enterprise that employed its workers through a shelf company that had no assets to give priority to paying their entitlements when it winds up, in a case that illustrates a new way of using the s106 unfair contract provisions.
High Court remits bid for review of nurses' arbitrated award; Curb bullying by allowing dismissal for inappropriate conduct, says senior lawyer; and Pilkington worker convicted for porn offences resigns despite company saying he can keep job.
In another important development in the AWU's battle with the new owners of the Elura mine, the NSW IRC has ordered that that no more AWAs be offered and no steps be taken to register those already signed until a new award is arbitrated for the site.
The general president of the CFMEU (mining & energy division), Tony Maher, is taking to Canberra his union's campaign to win coal miners the same level of superannuation contributions that other workers receive.
A presidential member of the AIRC has refused to follow a ruling made by a Commission Vice President, Michael Lawler, about whether to accept undertakings in order to make an agreement certifiable.
The AIRC and the Australian Industrial Registry are set to move their national HQ, currently in Melbourne's Nauru House, to a new building two blocks away.
