The CFMEU is tomorrow seeking special leave from the High Court to challenge a finding that an employer did not take adverse action against an employee because it was motivated by the "impact" of the person exercising a workplace right rather than the "actual exercise" of the right.
Pay rises in public sector agreements approved by the FWC in the September quarter hit a three-year low, while a 4% increase for Coles supermarkets employees lifted rises in private sector agreements to an almost two-year high, according to Department of Employment data.
Norfolk Island's public sector workforce is seeking an 8% wage increase over two years, compulsory 9.5% employer superannuation and additional financial compensation for the introduction of income tax next year.
Former Queensland Council of Unions leader Grace Grace has taken over the State's IR portfolio after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced a cabinet reshuffle today.
ACTU secretary Dave Oliver says that unions are "very receptive" to the Turnbull Government's emphasis on innovation, after the "negativity and conflict" under former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
A company took unlawful adverse action when it sacked an employee after he exercised a workplace right to refuse to temporarily work in a higher classification, the Federal Court has ruled.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a resident caretaker of a luxury resort, even though he is manager, is a "worker" eligible to pursue an anti-bullying claim.
CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon will go to a contested committal hearing in March next year on the blackmail charges brought by the Royal Commmission police taskforce over the 2013 Boral concrete bans.
The new secretary of the NUW's NSW branch, Wayne Meaney, has been stood aside after the Heydon Royal Commission queried some of his spending on a union credit card.
