South Australia's parliamentary labour hire inquiry has recommended a national licensing scheme and significant penalties for host employers that use unregistered labour supply companies.
The NSW IRC has ordered the reinstatement from today of a decorated senior prison officer it dismissed for assaulting three inmates while suffering from a mental illness, but he will be denied backpay due to his misconduct.
Victorian building unions have announced a ban on development at the site of an historic Carlton pub that was allegedly illegally demolished over the weekend.
BHP Billiton will seek to have equal numbers of women and men at all levels of the company within nine years, under new targets announced today by CEO Andrew Mackenzie.
The FWC is set to determine whether the maritime union is entitled to broad coverage of waterfront workers at the key site where gas comes onshore for Chevron's massive Gorgon LNG project.
More than 2000 Bankwest employees will receive annual pay rises of 3% under a newly-approved agreement that introduces rostering trials to enable the bank to ramp-up staffing during high-demand periods, while other new finance agreements are increasing leave flexibility.
Fair Work Commission President Iain Ross will hold private talks tomorrow between the parties in the long-running dispute over employment conditions of labour hire workers at Carlton & United Breweries.
Victoria's volunteer firefighters have won further discovery of documents from the Country Fire Authority, in a case that considered whether dispute proceedings in the Fair Work Commission are covered by "without prejudice" privilege.
Restraint of trade clauses preventing a chief financial officer from jumping ship and working at a rival fashion retailer were broader than what was reasonable to protect the employer's legitimate interests, a court has found.
Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm has warned of a "difficult" relationship with the Turnbull Government after he accused it of reneging on a deal on gun laws.
