United Voice and the NUW are engaged in advanced merger talks that would create a new organisation with more than 170,000 members, according to multiple union sources.
Wage rises fell to a near-record low of 2.7% a year in private sector agreements approved in the March quarter and a record low of 2.4% in public sector deals, according to the Department of Employment.
CBA HR chief Melanie Laing has suffered a 52% pay cut following a decision by the company's board to cut to zero the short-term incentive payments for group executives, while a superannuation review has revealed about $16.7 million in underpayments to 36,000 current and former bank employees.
A Tiger Airways employee who claims he was sacked partly because of his age and his response to threats from the airline's chief pilot has won an extension of time to lodge a general protections claim because his legal representative wrongly made an unfair dismissal application.
The ACTU has accused the Treasury’s black economy taskforce of being too ideologically-driven and failing to consider evidence in finding in its interim report that the problem is partly a result of highly-regulated labour markets and excessive taxes.
The Victorian Supreme Court has dismissed a bid to quash blackmail charges against two leaders of the CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch over the union's dispute with Boral.
The FWC has granted the ASU a majority support determination at Shine Lawyers, opening the way for it to bargain on behalf of its Victorian workforce after the firm failed to prove this would have an adverse commercial or operational effect or that it was an arbitrarily-selected group.
The Turnbull Government is poised to launch a pincer movement against the CFMEU, through legislation that seeks to block its merger with the MUA and apply a fit and proper person test for officials.
The FWC has insisted an employer and union resume bargaining in a three-week window until it rescinds a temporary anti-strike order it issued after a delegate claimed he could resolve the dispute by transferring workers to a contracting arrangement he would manage.
The Federal Court has rejected claims an employer took adverse action against a dentist it threatened to sack for writing "pugnacious" emails, redirecting mail and refusing to attend disciplinary meetings, ruling that the last two actions amounted to him repudiating his employment contract.
