A newly-approved three-year enterprise deal for National Basketball League players lifts minimum salaries from $37,000 under a nominally-expired 2013 agreement to $40,000 and then to $45,000.
The FWC is prosecuting the TWU over its alleged failure to keep proper records in three states, including by keeping on its books almost 21,000 un-financial members in NSW.
The Fair Work Commission's general manager has launched an inquiry into the actions of former leaders of the CFMEU construction and general division's NSW branch, after the Heydon Royal Commission referred the matter to the tribunal.
The CFMEU has won a document discovery order over the withdrawn prosecution of its national secretary Michael O'Connor, in a judgment that ropes in Employment Minster Michaelia Cash.
The SA branch of the Independent Education Union has lodged an application for bargaining orders against Catholic school employers after a stoush over a union update to members prompted them to withdraw from negotiations for a new agreement covering about 6000 teachers and support workers in 193 schools.
In a damning report on Woolworths' trolley collection services, the FWO has issued a warning to businesses that use multi-tiered sub-contracting arrangements to "reap the benefit of underpaid labour" while failing to take responsibility for their supply chains.
Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten told the CFMEU that he was opposed to a specialist regulator for the construction industry when seeking the union's support to become Labor's leader in September 2013.
The FWC has weighed up the "unsophisticated" HR system of a Domino's Pizza franchisee against the "high degree of HRM specialist advice" available from the franchisor, in considering an unfair dismissal claim by a delivery driver who blew the whistle on his employer's alleged OHS and payroll breaches.
A five-year employment "guarantee" legislated by NSW's Parliament for electricity workers in the wake of the privatisation of poles and wires last year is under threat, according to the State Opposition.
A Shorten Labor Government would permit multinational companies to transfer senior personnel to Australia without requiring labour market testing and fast-track assessment of priority work visa applications for top-tier sponsors, under a new policy.
