The TWU has failed in its bid to have a group of Qantas catering workers reclassified at a higher pay grade, after the airline restructured and merged some of the roles in its catering operation.
Boral Resources has suffered a setback in its push to win more than $20 million in damages from the CFMEU, with the company ordered to pay the union's "substantial" legal costs after its civil trial was adjourned today for six weeks.
A full Federal Court has today dismissed a union appeal against an FWC decision that allows for agreements beyond their nominal expiry date to be terminated during the bargaining process.
A Full Federal Court has found an employer was entitled to relocate its employee's "base" of operations under the terms its enterprise agreement, with the result of reducing travel expenses and overtime.
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Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has rejected union applications for him to stand down from the inquiry on the grounds of apprehended bias, while acknowledging they could still apply to a court to make such a ruling.
The FWC has rejected the CFMEU's claim that the Port Kembla Coat Terminal enterprise agreement allows the "sandwiching" of long service and annual leave and has instead preferred the employer's view that long service leave cannot be broken up and substituted for periods of annual leave for the ultimate benefit of the employee.
The FWC has told an employee who claimed he was bullied following a single altercation that the general protections regime may offer better redress than a stop-order.
A full bench of the Federal Court has roughly halved the compensation awarded to a married couple who were prevented from working for Skilled Group's Offshore Marine Services, after the MUA appealed the way the payout was assessed.
