A high-profile former managing director and senior public servant has won damages of more than $900,000 after a court rejected his employer's claims that he engaged in gross negligence and serious misconduct that warranted his summary dismissal.
Mission Australia conducted a "fatally flawed" investigation that led to the sacking of a manager after she had been accused of intimidating an employee she supervised, FWA has found, while in another ruling the tribunal upheld a dismissal by Qantas after rejecting arguments that an employee's after-work assault of a colleague wasn't sufficiently connected to his employment.
Fair Work Australia has ruled that an employer unreasonably required a union organiser to meet with workers in a training room near managers' offices and has ordered it to give the union access to its lunch room to hold discussions with employees during meal times.
A court has rejected claims by the former general manager of Swatch Group Australia that he was directed to engage in price-fixing, in breach of both the Trade Practices Act and the implied terms of his employment contract, while the company failed in its counter claim that pornographic material found on his computer after his sacking justified his summary dismissal.
The FSU has called on Suncorp to revise a bargaining offer that it says would cut weekend penalties and give management control over whether to increase pay for the finance and insurance company's 17,000 strong workforce.
FWA has rejected an agreement for three Bakers Delight stores in Melbourne after finding submissions by employer representative Enterprise Initiatives about the deal's clauses were "inaccurate, misleading or contradictory".
Telstra workers to vote on deal; Appalling" childcare employer ordered to make maximum payout; Workers not hard to find, except in mining, says RBA; We won't change paid parental plans, says Abbott; and Home care workers not entitled to first aid allowance: FWA
LHMU wins scope order for single enterprise agreement; FWA rejects premature ballot application; Strikes stopped despite uncertainty over economic harm; and FWA grants ballot order, but puts unions on notice
Rio Tinto's five-year non-union Pilbara agreement it made with just a handful of employees ahead of the Fair Work Act taking effect has survived a Federal Court challenge by the CFMEU (mining & energy division).
