The MUA's national council has stared down Coalition threats to stymie its merger with the CFMEU, endorsing the plan to create an "activist, campaigning" combined entity by the middle of next year.
United Voice is urging the FWC to adopt a medium-term wage minimum wage target of 60% of median earnings to act as a "'floor' in the system", while employers say there is no basis in the Fair Work Act for such a mechanism.
A worker who made derogatory comments about a supervisor on social media has won $28,000 compensation because he was never told his dismissal was partly based on a confidential report claiming his behaviour had a negative effect on his colleagues.
National law firm Clayton Utz won legal services contracts from the FWBC for more than $3.3m in the 2015-16 reporting period, taking the largest share of the agency's $13.2m in such contracts valued at more than $100,000.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has indicated that it might support the Turnbull Government's legislation to re-establish the ABCC and to create a watchdog body for registered organisations.
The Senate has passed unamended the Turnbull Government’s bill to outlaw terms in the proposed CFA agreement that might limit the involvement of volunteer firefighters.
The FWC has banned hundreds of subcontractor workers at six Lend Lease projects in Queensland from taking unlawful industrial action in support of protected strikes by two dozen of the construction giant's direct employees.
An FWC presidential member has found that despite some "prevailing contemporary opinion to the contrary" it is "illogical" to review employees' rosters or individual circumstances when assessing whether an agreement passes the BOOT.
A Toll subsidiary must reinstate two long-serving employees after the FWC found it wasn't fair to sack them over a safety incident it exaggerated and insufficiently investigated.
