The FWC has ordered an employer to reinstate a sewer cleaner who left a message calling a colleague a "f---ing scab" for refusing to participate in industrial action, but it has declined to order restoration of his lost wages.
The Victorian branch of the ANMF will recommend at a statewide stopwork meeting this afternoon that 43,000 nurses and midwives from across the public health system accept an updated "comprehensive offer" from the Andrews State Government and employers.
The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) has criticised the Turnbull Government for failing to overturn the controversial "backpacker tax" from last year's Federal Budget, while the Greens and the ACTU have attacked the Budget's internship program.
Department of Defence civilian employees have again rejected a proposed enterprise agreement, with almost 55% voting down an offer that included a 6% pay rise over three years.
Fairfax journalists might face individual fines after Ombudsman probe; FSU seeks better communications strategy; FSU preparing logs of claim for NAB and major industry super fund; and CFMEU penalties just a cost of doing business, says building cop.
A Qantas pilot, who blamed a spiked drink for his groping of a female flight crew member during a Santiago lay-over, has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected by an FWC full bench for the second time.
The HSU's NSW branch says it will clear the debt generated by its corrupt former leadership within two-and-a-half-years, thanks in part to an aggressive savings strategy and a new recruitment focus in aged care and private health, as it prepares to reveal a substantial donation to the ALP to fight the Coalition's "draconian" attack on unions.
A Turnbull Government review is calling for legislative change to overhaul "ineffective" recruitment practices and boost gender equality in the Australian Public Service, but the CPSU has criticised it for missing an opportunity to drive positive change.
The Turnbull Government is maintaining its tough approach to the public sector in the Federal Budget, requiring another 2.5% efficiency dividend in 2016-17 that the CPSU says will lead to the loss of up to 4500 jobs.
The Federal Court has knocked back a rostering manager's claim for "recall to duty" entitlements for out-of-hours calls about employee availability and shift arrangements, finding them a "core" aspect of her employment obligations.
