The Turnbull Government granted FWBC director Nigel Hadgkiss new powers soon before calling the federal election, in a bid to stop builders and contractors agreeing to "union-friendly" clauses in enterprise agreements.
The Federal Court has rejected a worker's claim that a senior HR advisor threatened him against challenging the findings of an investigation into his complaint against a supervisor.
Reducing penalty rates, increasing rostering flexibility and boosting the ability of employers to make agreements directly with employees are at the top of employer groups' IR wishlists for the July 2 federal election.
The ETU has blamed the Turnbull Government's proposed national construction code for a major dispute at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital hospital project.
Convenience store chain 7-Eleven is ending the Fels Panel's oversight of its process for rectifying systematic underpayments to franchisee employees and moving the task to what it says is an independent internal unit.
FWC accepts six-minutes-late dismissal claim; Creative crane driver fails to win job back; FWC member showed no real or apparent bias, says bench; and Tribunal douses smoker's bid to win job back.
An employer's bid to lock the CFMEU out of its agreement's coverage due to an "oversight" has led to a full bench overturning previous authorities that would have generated an "irrational" result.
The Federal Court will hold a one-day inquiry on May 26 that will decide whether Victorian public sector union leader Karen Batt will face her first election challenge in 20 years.
