A software consultancy seeking a permanent injunction to prevent an IT specialist from moving to a former client, Grocon, has failed to convince the Victorian Court of Appeal that it should be able to retrospectively change part of its restraint clause to make it legally enforceable.
Shorten says Seek partnership will boost resources jobs board; $10,000 fine for CFMEU in RMIT building dispute; Unions NSW launches Parramatta campaign office; and Out of time application blamed on employer's confusion.
The Federal Magistrates Court has fined call centre operator Quincolli Pty Ltd $81,000 and its director $26,500, and ordered the company to reimburse more than $190,000 to 33 underpaid employees, in a FWO prosecution involving allegations of political interference.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has today committed to introducing new laws that will enable bullying victims to seek rapid redress through the Fair Work Commission.
Significant numbers of Australian workers are performing unpaid work - much of it likely to be in breach of the Fair Work Act - with young and migrant employees particularly vulnerable, the country's first major report on the subject has found.
New federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has given his department the go-ahead to canvass alternatives to the controversial offensive conduct clause in the exposure draft of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, with secretary Roger Wilkins presenting options to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Senate Committee inquiry.
A company did not breach the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions when it performance-managed and disciplined an employee after he made a written complaint about his managers, the Federal Court has ruled.
