FWC President Iain Ross has today refused Employment Minister Michaelia Cash's request that he constitute a full bench to review Deputy President Jeff Lawrence's decision to grant CEPU NSW postal & telecommunications branch secretary Jim Metcher an entry permit.
Queensland has a new regime for adverse action and bullying, its electoral commission will no longer have to conduct postal ballots before protected industrial action and good faith bargaining provisions have been strengthened, under new IR legislation that has passed State Parliament.
The Federal Court has found a hospital did not take adverse action against an emergency department nurse, rejecting as baseless her claims it discriminated against her because she lodged a workplace dispute and complained about working "excessive" weekend shifts.
Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has ordered the CBA to pay $10,000 to a former employee of one its mortgage innovation agencies and review its information handling policies after it improperly allowed an agency head to access her details while she pursued him for dismissing her.
Western Australia's Barnett Coalition Government has unveiled a construction code that will regulate the IR practices of tenderers for state-funded projects worth more than $10 million from January 1.
The re-established ABCC says it will pay close attention to picketing in the industrial dispute between the CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch and building company Kane Constructions.
The FWO should given the same power the ATO has to recover unpaid super from employers, according to a new report commissioned by industry funds that estimates companies are underpaying compulsory entitlements by at least $3.6 billion a year.
Victoria will conduct gender audits across the state public sector as part of a new strategy to address inequality, sexism and violence against women, while a Senate inquiry majority has rejected legislation to outlaw "pay gag clauses" to reduce the gender-based remuneration gap.
The Fair Work Commission is proposing to remove "unusual" annual leave and annual leave loading entitlements together with penalties for late payment of wages transferred electronically as part of its four-yearly review into modern awards.
