BHP Coal satisfied consultation obligations in its enterprise agreement after announcing it would shed hundreds of jobs across four central Queensland coal mines in 2014, even though it had already reached a decision to offer voluntary redundancies, the Federal Court has found.
A cleaning company that shamelessly exploited a vulnerable workforce made "inept attempts” to avoid the legal consequences when it claimed its employees were independent contractors, the Federal Court has found.
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the Turnbull Government can deliver on election promises such as re-establishing the ABCC, despite facing a "difficult parliament".
The takeover of the Patrick's stevedoring business by a company chaired by waterfront warrior Chris Corrigan has helped to break a long–running bargaining deadlock with the MUA.
In a novel ruling, an FWC full bench has ruled that an on-hire worker no longer had the capacity to perform his job once a labour hire provider acceded to a host employer's demand to end his placement.
Workers at the Arrium steelworks in South Australia have narrowly rejected a proposed enterprise agreement containing a 10% pay cut that has been proposed by the company's administrator, but the ballot might be re-run in coming weeks.
An employer that required a manager to work up to 70 hours a week and be on call 24-hours-a-day when it cut its workforce and outsourced maintenance breached its duty of care to prevent him from developing a psychiatric injury, Victoria's Supreme Court has found.
