A Toll freight handler who last year won the right to convert from a casual to full-time job in a precedent-setting ruling has taken the company to court again for not complying with the ruling, but a lawyer for Toll Transport on Friday argued the action was nothing but an attempt to relitigate the earlier case, which saw Toll pay $42,500 in penalties.
A former RMIT worker suing the university for allegedly firing him after he blew the whistle on a colleague for selling exam answers to students has won a bid to subpoena documents from the Victorian Ombudsman.
A judge has rejected a bid by information services company SAI Global Property to temporarily ban a former sales manager from working for a direct competitor, saying the executive could not have realistically remembered SAI’s list of thousands of clients.
A BHP subsidiary has won a reprieve pending appeal of a Fair Work Commission decision that found it acted unreasonably when it failed to consider alternative work for an incapacitated miner.
Supermarket chain Aldi Foods has made several attempts to negotiate with its drivers’ union in a long running industrial dispute, but the union refuses to sit down for talks, a court heard last week.
Qantas has struck out a second time in a week in a bid to have an outside lawyer represent it in proceedings before the Fair Work Commission, with a commissioner saying Thursday the airline was “more than capable” of representing itself.
The Turnbull government will continue to pursue legislation that would have blocked the merger of the Construction, Forestry and Energy Union with two other unions by submitting the amalgamation to a public interests test.
The Construction, Forestry Energy and Mining Union has appealed a penalty handed down last month over a walkout organized in protest of a policy requiring workers to wear long-sleeved shirts and trousers.
A judge on Wednesday issued his reasons for refusing a bid by a former Norton Rose Fulbright lawyer to move scheduled mediation of the case out of Sydney, and he didn’t pull any punches.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected a call by unions for family-friendly working arrangements but provisionally offered a compromise that would expand the number of employees eligible to negotiate flexible hours.