The Senate in the early hours of this morning passed the Coalition's bill to establish a dedicated Registered Organisations Commission to regulate unions and employer organisations, ahead of the expected resumption of debate on the ABCC legislation today.
The agreements for Australia's largest fast food chains treat workers worse than those at the major retailers, according to the head of a new union that is seeking overturn the IR status quo in both industries.
A court has ordered ANZ, its former chief executive Philip Chronican and two other bank executives, including its chief HR officer, to pay the costs of part of a case brought by an employee who alleged they failed to make reasonable adjustments during her pregnancy.
A businessman who is accusing Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten of conspiring with corporate regulator ASIC while he was the AWU's Victorian branch secretary to stop a company takeover has failed to convince a Supreme Court judge that he should recuse himself.
A new retail and fast food union this morning has SDA members in its sights as it embarks on a recruitment campaign at Coles and Woolworths and considers joining the application to terminate the Coles Supermarkets enterprise agreement, according to founding secretary Josh Cullinan.
The CFMEU has been granted access to documents supporting prospective agreements between the AWU and a major labour supplier after expressing concern that the deals negotiated by its fellow union failed the BOOT.
The Australian Baseball League did not take adverse action against a team's general manager when it opted not to renew his contract, a court has found.
The FWC has knocked out United Voice's bid to review copies of documents supporting an enterprise agreement application it suspected of "undercutting" employees' conditions and not being genuinely agreed, observing the union was trying to do the Commission's job.
