The Federal Government has asked the Productivity Commission to conduct the first of a series of five-yearly inquiries into the nation's productivity performance, but the ACTU says the initiative ignores the "real problems" faced by workers.
An FWC full bench has taken a swipe at WA universities over actions that might have "substantially invited" a failed NTEU appeal, while the union says the employer's latest court action is seeking to hold its divisional secretary and an industrial officer personally liable for allegedly false or misleading bargaining campaign materials.
The peak industry super body is backing today's Turnbull Government decision to scrap plans to limit lifetime non-concessional super contributions to $500,000 and to instead reduce the current annual cap from $180,000 to $100,000.
A mineworker who along with his workmates bullied a hardworking colleague and used their vehicles to box him in on a highway has failed to convince the FWC he was unfairly dismissed.
The FWC has rejected an agreement for security officers at Centrelink offices, finding its loaded rates failed to ensure that those who worked Sundays were better off overall.
A Perth Airport baggage handler has been compensated after the FWC found it unfair to sack him for "extremist" social media posts, including "we all support ISIS", that purportedly sympathised with terrorist groups.
A full Federal Court has quashed the approval of an allegedly substandard security services agreement and sent it back to the FWC, finding a full bench failed to properly formalise its ruling and to consider United Voice claims that it didn't pass the BOOT.
Unions representing police, nurses and ambulance officers have expressed strong reservations over the Turnbull Government's legislation to defend the role of volunteers in Victoria's Country Fire Authority, while Professor Andrew Stewart says parties might be able to readily sidestep the legislative restrictions via side deeds.
A HR manager who rose to the general manager role at Surf Life Saving NSW before resigning in July over his embezzlement of an estimated $3 million has won a variation to freezing orders on his assets.
A court has refused a Fair Entitlements Guarantee payment to an estranged spouse who was working for her husband when his business collapsed but claimed her marriage effectively ended after he took a second wife two years ago.
