A judge has overlooked a lawyer's "deplorable" heckling from the bar table in awarding costs against an "experienced litigator" and his firm for persisting with a stay application that unreasonably extended a solicitor's dismissal challenge.

Victoria's new Premier Ben Carroll has pledged to accept the recommendations of an IBAC report that finds the former Andrews Labor Government allowed UFU secretary Peter Marshall to exert "extraordinary influence" in negotiations for a controversial agreement.

The FWC has ordered quarrelling parties to refrain from using artificial intelligence tools in their communications, to avoid unnecessarily "lengthy" and "accusatory" AI-prepared emails.

A large NSW rural council is trialling a four-day working week to tackle rising costs, improve productivity and avoid increasing rates.

The FWC has ruled that a coal mining company unreasonably refused an MEU shop steward's request to use delegates leave to attend a a conference on dust exposure and diseases.

BHP iron ore port unions are reporting progress in bargaining for the first time, after months of meetings, but will nevertheless forge ahead with this weekend’s strikes.

Victoria's shadow attorney-general breached workplace conduct rules when he posted "Tick tock Jacinta Allan. Victoria is coming for Labor with baseball bats" on his social media channels, the state's parliamentary standards watchdog has found.

Employers are hoping high-level meetings with Victoria's new-look State Government will this week confirm that it will significantly amend a work-from-home bill to assuage concerns over OHS liabilities, "stacking" and an unrealistic timeframe.

Colin Brooks will serve new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll as his IR Minister and Treasurer.

The AMOU has failed to persuade the FWC that a greenfields deal covering deck officers should be rejected because of a demarcation "side-deal" made with the AWU half a century ago.