The private equity consortium that has won provisional Qantas board approval to take over the airline for $5.60 cash per share has today ruled out offshoring of maintenance functions, while Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon said there were no plans for offshoring other functions and that existing plans for reducing labour and other operational costs would continue under the new owners.
Two employees have been found personally liable to pay damages to a former client who suffered as a result of their professional advice, in a High Court ruling that challenges previous notions of the sole or vicarious responsibility of employers for workers' actions.
The Federal Court has ordered the CFMEU to pay $115,000 in penalties and costs for breaching the Trade Practices Act's secondary boycott provisions when it delayed a concrete pour and picketed at a construction site in Perth in 2004.
In an important private dispute resolution ruling that might provide an alternative channel to challenge unfair dismissals under Work Choices, the AIRC has reinstated three employees made redundant by Telstra. It found that flaws in the structure of the telco's HR management mean it is unable to comply with obligations to consult employees and their union about restructuring plans.
Cleaning contractor Consolidated Property Services (Australia) today sought innovative court injunctions to stop the LHMU from making public statements about the company's hygiene standards as part of its industrial campaign for cleaners.
The recent amendments to the Workplace Relations Act and the Independent Contractors Act have received Royal Assent, with most of the changes to the IR legislation taking effect yesterday.
A senior court official who was sacked last year over allegations of sexual harassment has won a conditional reinstatement order after the NSW IRC found his dismissal was too harsh.
Qantas has been ordered to pay a former licensed aircraft mechanical engineer $71,692 after the Federal Magistrates Court accepted that discriminatory remarks made to him at work contributed to his depressive illness.
Revised AWAs being offered by the new owners of failed manufacturer Feltex Carpets have been rejected for a second time by the AIRC as unacceptable alternative employment because they reduce conditions in a current union collective agreement.
