Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed today that the Senate's rejection of the bills to re-establish the ABCC will be a trigger for a double dissolution election.
The FWC has revoked an order granting the AIMPE access to crucial documents that might provide the basis for entry rights for discussions with tug crew members engaged as "partners" serving BHP Billiton's iron ore export operations at Port Hedland.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal will consider delaying the operative date of its contractor driver minimum rates order until February 1 next year.
The FWC has rejected an employee's claims that St Vincent de Paul Society NSW sacked him for a prohibited reason after he lodged bullying complaints, but has criticised the employer's HR practices.
A tribunal has criticised Football Federation Australia's refusal of financial assistance to a Matildas soccer player to care for her 11-month-old during a US tour, describing it as "mean spirited" and "inflexible", but found it had acted lawfully because the legislation "does not provide a remedy for all forms of discrimination".
The TWU has asked the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal to defer its minimum rates order, in a bid to head-off or delay abolition of the Tribunal by the Turnbull Government.
A labour supplier must pay the crew it provided for an offshore vessel for a full duty-day on their “swing-off” day as their replacement by another employer's seafarers did not amount to a second crew under their agreement, the FWC has found.
An urgent application by a sacked public servant to stop the Defence Department publishing notice of her dismissal in the Australian Public Service Gazette has been rejected by the Federal Court.
