Pilots at budget airline Tigerair have warned that planned industrial action from Friday to Sunday could cause flight delays and cancellations, but unions say it could be back off the table by 5pm today if the employer improves its pay offer and budges on rostering, leave and parking costs.
The Fair Work Commission acceded to a bid by mining giants to terminate a coal loading agreement after concluding that a system of "self-directed" work teams that constrains management prerogative "needs to go".
A tribunal has ruled that when a public health organisation suspended a psychiatrist, it was not retaliation for his "constant" complaints, but its chief executive acting on a recommendation to stand him down while it investigated allegations of threatening behaviour towards his colleagues.
A major medical practice's former chief executive has had his application for a bullying order against two doctor-directors thrown out by the FWC, which observed that "short of storming the barricades" he had no prospect of ever meeting the threshold requirement of returning to his job.
Aerocare's 2500 workers today began voting on a new offer by the aviation ground-handler that seeks to cut through a thicket of litigation and hurdle strong opposition from the TWU and ASU.
An Italian consulate has failed to convince a full Federal Court that it is immune from underpayment claims pursued under Australian IR laws by two former employees who signed contracts linking their entitlements to Italian legal and industrial arrangements.
An FWC unfair dismissal application can be both incomplete and unaccompanied by the required fee as long as it is filed within the statutory 21 days, a senior Commission member has found.
A majority shareholder who "worked very hard" as company secretary of a start-up for more than two years before her board chairman husband informed her she was being removed was not protected from unfair dismissal, the FWC has found.
