CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka has suffered another setback in his long-running defamation case against Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Sky News, after a court rejected another attempt to limit defence arguments available to Abbott and the news organisation.
The Federal Court has ordered the CFMEU (construction and general division) and WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald to pay a total of $193,600 for their part in an unlawful stopwork at a Pilbara site.
Crown Melbourne's dealers have won immediate pay rises of up to 18%, under the latest enterprise agreement covering the casino group's 4500 hospitality workers.
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency says the new mandatory reports that employers of 100-plus employees must submit on April 1 next year will be "significantly easier and quicker to complete" than those under the previous regime. Meanwhile, the WGEA is relaunching its employer of choice accreditation scheme.
A FWC full bench has directed a Jetstar flight attendant to address it on whether it can consider reinstating her in the wake of media reports that South African authorities are seeking to extradite her over allegations of "criminal conduct of the most serious kind".
FWC releases bullying guide, flowchart; Vale Terry Ludeke and Keith Marshall; Abetz consulting on appeals jurisdiction policy that's yet to be released, says Opposition.
Toyota Australia will now have to undertake a "two-step process" to remove "uncompetitive" clauses from its enterprise agreement, after the Federal Court's Justice Mordy Bromberg this afternoon issued an injunction halting a ballot that was to open at midnight.
Australian public service agencies need to develop "more mature and nuanced approaches" if they are to successfully manage employees' comments on work-related issues through social media, the APSC has warned.
The Fair Work Commission is consulting with the Federal Government, staff and stakeholders to develop the second phase of its Future Directions strategy, after fully implementing the 25 initiatives announced as part of the first phase.
The FWC is seeking feedback by Thursday on a 13-page draft form to be completed by workers who claim they have been bullied, which provides them the option of ticking a box for up to six remedies, while also giving them the chance to propose their own solution.
