The TWU has pledged to fight FedEx like it did Qantas, after filing a Federal Court adverse action case accusing the logistics giant of cancelling the overtime of workers who took protected action and withdrawing approval to attend a delegates' conference.
A BHP subsidiary unreasonably docked by 5% the wages of Pilbara power workers who engaged in protected partial work bans, the FWC has ruled, reducing the discount to 2% after registering "significant concerns" with the resources giant's calculation methodology.
RBA monetary policy board member and former FWC president Iain Ross has dismissed fears Australia could experience a damaging wage-price spiral despite the recent sharp rises in inflation
The FWC has declared the long-running Queensland Rail dispute resolved following a "substantial" and "intensive" undertaking, while strongly urging workers vote to accept seven in-principle deals rather than holding out for an intractable bargaining process.
Two silks with backgrounds in building and construction, criminal, administrative and public law are leading the legal team for Chris Kourakis' Royal Commission into crime and misconduct in the Victorian construction industry, ahead of its first hearing.
A FWC full bench has rebuffed an employer's challenge to a same-job, same-pay ruling, in its first full bench consideration of the interaction between SJSP legislation and transfer of business provisions.
Underpayments spike as FWO calls for end to "adversarialism"; FWC launches sexual harassment tool; Reinstatement for "phat arse" worker; SCHADS pay rises deferred; and ANMF wins scope orders for aged care nurses.
The FWC has rejected a teacher's argument that he is entitled to paid parental leave beyond paid partner leave on the basis that his wife "granted" him parental responsibility when she returned to work.
In an indication that the Qantas group didn't abandon its hardline IR approach with the departure of Alan Joyce, its low-cost subsidiary is threatening to put a unilateral deal to its ASU-covered customer service workforce as it votes on industrial action to coincide with school holidays and the AFL and NRL finals series.
A meat union delegate who has had hundreds of thousands of dollars in employer penalties paid into his union's coffers has added almost $90,000 more to his tally, this time from Woolworths.
