After twice refusing to issue bargaining orders against the MUA over its conduct in negotiations with offshore oil and gas vessel operators, the FWC has told it to set the record straight on a string of misrepresentations about the "status, content and character" of bargaining.
Ahead of Parliament resuming to consider the IR bills that triggered the double dissolution, a key crossbench supporter, Family First Senator Bob Day, has resigned with immediate effect.
The CFMEU says it will appeal to a full Federal Court over a judge's refusal to let it withdraw admissions that it was liable for right of entry contraventions by five officials at three Adelaide construction sites, after the High Court on Friday found the union inappropriately invoked its jurisdiction.
An Australia Post employee who two decades ago won the support of then shadow IR minister John Howard in postal union elections has failed to win his job back after an FWC full bench rejected his appeal.
An IT start-up was justified in sacking a manager because he was prone to "angry outbursts" and failed to invoice customers, resulting in a $35,000 shortfall for the business, the FWC has found.
The Turnbull Government has accused ABC management of breaching the public sector bargaining policy, expressing "utmost concern" after a new enterprise agreement covering 5000 employees was voted up this week.
The chair of Victoria's labour hire inquiry has asked police to consider investigating one of the state's leading poultry producers for advising an employee that his job was in jeopardy if he continued to make "unsubstantiated" allegations about the company.
The Fair Work Act is "effectively useless" to counter picketing, according to a leading employer-clientele barrister who laments that police often turn "a blind eye" to what would normally be considered criminal conduct, while the High Court's chief justice has canvassed the utility of comparative law in the workplace legal arena.
The FWC has ordered an employer to hand over a confidential report into alleged bullying complaints, board meeting minutes and communications about its investigation to two employees claiming they were bullied in the workplace.
