Patrick Stevedores is asking the Fair Work Commission to end its year-long bargaining deadlock with the MUA at its four major container terminals, arguing the union has been stalling since mid-April on the company's "final offer".
Scott takes over as WA IRC chief commissioner; Volunteers win delay on CFA agreement ballot; Baker's resolve to dismiss apprentice without warning unfair.
The Federal Court has ruled that an Anglo Coal subsidiary breached its enterprise agreement by failing to pay employees who cashed-out personal/carer's leave the same amount as if they had worked their regular shift lengths.
Failed online lodgement an exceptional circumstance; Police whistleblower fails to suppress identity in dismissal case; No compensation for worker who misused fuel card; and Truck driver's conduct amounted to resignation.
The Productivity Commission has canvassed the "radical" option of providing a "universal basic income" to redistribute wealth as a response to digital disruption of the economy.
Washery employees at two of Peabody Energy's Bowen Basin coal mines will experience a "small but significant reduction in their overall remuneration" after an FWC full bench upheld the mining giant's application to terminate its agreement.
An accountancy firm manager who pursued a secret plan to sell part of his employer's business to Macquarie Bank for a $5 million personal profit has failed to convince a court that he was wrongfully dismissed.
An FWC presidential member has accepted the legitimacy of employers negotiating with employees to take a pay cut to ride out a business downturn, but has found it unfair to dismiss the only one who refused the 10% reduction.
A second-term Turnbull Government will adopt the "overwhelming majority" of the Heydon Royal Commission's recommendations, including outlawing "corrupting benefits" such as those involved in the AWU-Cleanevent deal and giving courts the power to disqualify repeat-offender union officials, Employment Minister Michaelia Cash said today.
Jetstar ground handling employees will earn bonuses of up to $600 a year for reducing baggage "misdirects" under a side deal to a proposed new enterprise agreement that delivers new allowances for towing and training.
