The NUW's NSW branch has admitted "very serious governance failures" in recent years, while seeking to defend president Marilyn Issanchon and new state secretary Wayne Meaney.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has set down principles to guide the equal pay case for child care workers and early childhood teachers, before it hears the merits of the matter next year.
Stevedore DP World has acknowledged its "clerical error" is to blame for the FWC's rejection of proposed enterprise agreements for its Melbourne and Brisbane container terminals, after its ballot declarations wrongly stated that fewer than 10% and 2% of workers respectively supported the deals.
The AiG in its submission to the Victorian labour hire inquiry is calling for the federal government to legislate to clarify the Fair Work Act so that "temp to perm" conversions are not caught by transfer of business rules, while it is expressing reservations about a formal labour hire code of conduct proposed by the industry's peak body.
A full Federal Court will hold further hearings into an appeal by Esso Australia that seeks to test the right of the Fair Work Commission to make wide-ranging orders to stop unprotected industrial action under s418 of the Fair Work Act.
ANZ employees vote up agreement; Westpac deal gets final tick; Former FWC member appointed to new Ambulance Victoria Board; Final orders in DP World bullying case; 20 days domestic violence leave at student body; and Federal Government to pay appeal costs of race discrimination appeal.
Changes to greenfields agreements bargaining, protected action ballots and unpaid parental leave have come into effect today, after the Federal Government's Fair Work Amendment Bill received Royal Assent yesterday.
A former Essendon AFL player is now considering whether to sue the club - and possibly the AFL - for allegedly failing to safeguard his health and wellbeing during the "notorious" 2012 player supplements program, after the Victorian Supreme Court granted him access to excerpts from a raft of League documents.
An HR advisor who failed to convince the FWC he was an employee of a company after being refused permission to appear on its behalf as a paid agent has previously succeeded using a similar tactic.
The Federal Court has found the CFMEU and 11 organisers breached entry rules at four Lend Lease building sites in Adelaide two years ago, but has dismissed claims that they took adverse action by threatening to stop work at one site if the company refused to fly the union flag.
