The High Court has this afternoon declined at this stage to hear Independent Contractors Australia's constitutional challenge to the RSRT and has rejected its bid for an urgent interlocutory injunction to halt the contractor drivers RSRO.
The Turnbull Government will fast-track Fair Entitlements Guarantee payments to retrenched Queensland Nickel employees and will for the first time appoint its own liquidator to pursue $74m in outstanding entitlements.
Stevedore Patrick says it has made its "final offer" to the MUA to resolve deadlocked negotiations for a new enterprise agreement for its four container terminals.
A tribunal has criticised Football Federation Australia's refusal of financial assistance to a Matildas soccer player to care for her 11-month-old during a US tour, describing it as "mean spirited" and "inflexible", but found it had acted lawfully because the legislation "does not provide a remedy for all forms of discrimination".
The TWU has asked the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal to defer its minimum rates order, in a bid to head-off or delay abolition of the Tribunal by the Turnbull Government.
The world's biggest coal miner, Peabody Energy Corporation, says its Australian operations and their 2500 employees and 1000 contract workers will be unaffected by its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the US, despite an ownership link to the parent company via Gibraltar.
Crossbench Senator John Madigan says he is "leaning towards" next week supporting the Turnbull Government's bill to abolish the RSRT but will first meet with industry associations, while Independent Contractors Australia will tomorrow seek a High Court injunction to freeze the RSRO.
A labour supplier must pay the crew it provided for an offshore vessel for a full duty-day on their “swing-off” day as their replacement by another employer's seafarers did not amount to a second crew under their agreement, the FWC has found.
An urgent application by a sacked public servant to stop the Defence Department publishing notice of her dismissal in the Australian Public Service Gazette has been rejected by the Federal Court.
