A tribunal has ordered an employer to allow the CFMEU entry to a major freeway construction site to investigate suspected breaches of OHS laws amid claims of threats directed towards its "stressed and anxious" members.
Almost 60% of young adult workers have performed unpaid work in the last five years, many expressing satisfaction with the experience, according to a new report that questions whether it improves employment prospects.
Qantas must rectify six years' worth of underpayments to five Adelaide airport customer service officers after a court found it systematically misapplied its own classification system.
The FWC has ordered the CFMEU's mining and energy division to stop inciting its members to ban overtime and take suspected sickies at AGL Energy's Loy Yang A power station.
The FWC has awarded $20,000 in compensation to a long-serving Salvation Army store manager allegedly caught stealing $200 on camera and has criticised the employer for failing to give her a chance to review the video evidence before her sacking.
Unions and dairy giant Parmalat are meeting this morning after its "indefinite" lockout of production and maintenance workers in response to a protected strike.
The FWC has approved an agreement for a franchisee of fast food chain Oporto, after it gave undertakings to lift its base rates of pay by up to a "remarkable" 26%, leaving employees more than 20% better off than under the award.
An FWC full bench has accused the CFMEU of seeking to "disguise" what would be an exercise of judicial power over entry rights as an administrative matter and of relying on a "red herring" argument.
The ABCC is seeking special leave from the High Court to seek to overturn a recent decision that stymied the watchdog's push to prohibit unions from paying fines imposed on officials for unlawful conduct.
The "unusual" involvement of a company's most senior HR personnel has contributed to a tribunal finding that it discriminated against an employee because she contracted tuberculosis.
