Qantas has called in cyber security experts after a "perceived compromise of the voting process" in an electronic ballot for a long-haul pilots' agreement.
The ACTU's national executive today passed a resolution calling for a public registry of labour hire companies and a "rigorous" national licensing regime.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is seeking individual penalties against seven seafarers who took unlawful industrial action last year when they refused for 10 days to weigh anchor for their last journey before being made redundant.
An FWC full bench will tomorrow hear an MUA challenge to the s418 order issued this week to halt an oil tanker crew’s protests against shipping company Teekay Shipping (Australia) replacing them with foreign workers.
A NSW government agency must pay a former employee more than $180,000 plus interest for economic loss, pain, suffering and general damages for its discriminatory treatment of her and its failure to make reasonable adjustments after her diagnosis with Crohn's Disease.
A tram company's payments to a driver it suspended then sacked for texting on the job made up for procedural shortcomings arising from its "hands off" HR practices, the FWC has found.
A labour hire company and the AWU's national office paid for staff for then national secretary Bill Shorten's campaign to win the federal seat of Maribyrnong at the 2007 federal election, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today in Sydney.
Labor has today accused Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd of favouritism towards his own workforce to get his agreement across the line.
