The Turnbull Government will scrutinise Fair Work Commission President Iain Ross's role in the bitter dispute surrounding Victoria's Country Fire Authority, after receiving an official complaint from a former CFA board member.
The dispute at Victoria's Country Fire Authority is set to flare in coming weeks as the new CFA board considers whether to sign-off on a controversial enterprise agreement.
Asciano must wait another three months before its new Port Botany terminal manager can start work after the NSW Supreme Court granted his former employer an additional restraint of trade period on top of three months' gardening leave.
Orders to reinstate a union delegate made redundant during a 2014 coal industry restructure will stand, despite a majority Federal Court decision setting aside findings that the employee was targeted.
Esso Australia has applied to terminate two important enterprise agreements at its Bass Strait oil and gas operations, becoming the latest big employer to use what one union has dubbed the "sledgehammer approach" to break a bargaining deadlock.
Western Australia's 16,000 public health sector employees have overwhelming agreed to a 3% pay rise over two years after the HSUWA argued it was a reasonable reflection of the "fairly dire state of the budget".
A shoe store manager who committed a retail "mortal sin" when he took cash from a customer and failed to account for it until a week later was unfairly sacked because his employer made significant procedural errors that included luring him to a meeting under false pretences, the FWC has found.
Protected industrial action at the Australian Rail Track Corporation is continuing ahead of workers voting on a management deal featuring annual pay rises of 2%, half the increase sought by unions.
A firefighter who failed to disclose adverse findings of professional misconduct has been given a temporary reprieve after the FWC found his probationary period should be extended until a dispute over his employer's move to sack him is determined.
The Fair Work Ombudsman's investigation into March's wildcat strike by Fairfax Media journalists has found that it is "not in the public interest" to take any further action, ending speculation that MEAA members could face heavy fines.
