CBA HR managers were "indifferent" to the risks that individual flexibility arrangements weren't meeting employees' EA entitlements, the Federal Court has ruled.
Ikea's new enterprise agreement "walks the talk on inclusion", and allows access to benefits such as paid parental leave "from day one", a leader in its people and culture team says.
The Federal Court has ordered a continued injunction against a misconduct investigation, finding it possible that the employer's process breached its enterprise agreement.
Nearly two-thirds of Australian business leaders are expecting a rise in employee activism, with pay inequalities and the cost of living predicted as the main drivers for negotiations, according to new research.
In light of the Fair Work Commission's first multi-employer bargaining decisions, many organisations will now want to think more seriously about how they can shore up control of their employment relationships, a workplace lawyer says.
The FWC's first multi-employer bargaining decision reinforces that the new framework will be relevant to "pretty much every employer in the country", according to a workplace lawyer.
Three unions and 64 childcare employers have been cleared to make a multi-enterprise agreement, after a Fair Work Commission full bench found numerous factors "overwhelmingly" favoured authorising their application.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has accused six employees of engaging in a "sham exercise" when they voted up an enterprise agreement, finding their approval was "entirely lacking in authenticity and moral authority".
An employer could have prevented a long-serving employee's suicide if it followed its own disciplinary procedure and considered alternatives to dismissal, a coroner's court has found.
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