The Federal court system faces an unprecedented half-day strike by support staff this afternoon over stalled pay negotiations which have left them without a rise for four years.
As Pizza Hut chief operations officer Chris Leslie pursues McDonald's for more than $100,000 allegedly owed to him after his retrenchment, the burger giant has hit back, seeking $240,000 and claiming it sacked him over his work for a rival.
The Turnbull Government is poised to introduce legislation to force greater disclosure from union-related funds including redundancy funds, which have about $2 billion in assets.
A Federal Labor Government would require that workers who vote on a new enterprise agreement be representative of those who will eventually be covered by it.
Today's High Court ruling doesn't set a precedent for suppression of workplace protests outside of the specific circumstances of Tasmanian forestry operations, according to Adelaide University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart.
The majority of a full High Court has today found that parts of Tasmania's laws against workplace protests in forestry and related areas are invalid because they offend the Constitution's implied freedom of political communication.
In a landmark judgment upholding a casual employee's right to convert to permanency on a "like for like" basis, the Federal Court has concluded it should fine Toll more than $40,000 and order it to compensate a freight handler for refusing to grant his request for full-time employment from May last year.
The FWC has found it has no basis to suspend industrial action by CEPU members at the Australian Submarine Corporation, because a campaign of 162 half-hour stopworks is yet to begin, but has warned it would be likely to issue orders to provide for an agreement ballot in a strike-free environment if circumstances change.
An FWC full bench has granted permission to appeal the sacking by resources giant FMG of an employee just one week into a six-week performance improvement plan (PIP), but has cautioned against interpreting its ruling as suggesting that employers must always see such processes through to the end.