The Turnbull Government is set to detail its election pledge to end "secret deals" between unions and employers as part of its response to the recommendations of the Heydon Royal Commission.
The FWC will make a workplace determination for Essential Energy that will include the hotly-disputed issues of compulsory redundancies and outsourcing, after the utility and unions failed to reach agreement in three weeks of negotiations that ended on Tuesday.
In an important ruling, a full Federal Court has made it more difficult for parties disgruntled with FWC private arbitrations to seek court orders to quash the rulings and have them re-heard.
Victoria should establish portable long-service schemes for the community sector, contract cleaners and the security industry, a state parliamentary inquiry has recommended.
A Shorten Labor Government would introduce an "anonymous CV" regime for all federal public service graduate and entry-level positions, in a bid to eliminate unconscious gender bias in assessment of job applications.
The ACTU is calling for the next federal government to reduce the statutory age at which Indigenous workers can retire and access superannuation because they are currently "more likely to die than retire".
The Victorian Government is looking to appoint a new board for the Country Fire Authority by the end of this week, after deciding to sack the incumbents on Friday for opposing a new enterprise agreement.
The AMIEU wants to resume bargaining for a new dedicated butchers' enterprise agreement with Coles now that the Fair Work Commission has quashed last year's supermarkets deal that rolled in meatworkers and Coles Online employees.
Verbal unfair dismissal settlement is binding; Micromanager's bullying justified his dismissal; and Federal agency's consultation clause not just "aspirational", says bench.
