A national sales manager on a permanent working visa has failed in his bid to win the more than $220,000 in contractual entitlements and bonus payments he says his employer denied him over three years.
The CFMEU’s “interim" green ban on a redevelopment in Sydney's Millers Point is its second such intervention this year and reprises the actions of its NSW BLF predecessor more than forty years ago to protect the historic Rocks precinct.
The peak industry super body is backing today's Turnbull Government decision to scrap plans to limit lifetime non-concessional super contributions to $500,000 and to instead reduce the current annual cap from $180,000 to $100,000.
A report on the impact of the short-lived RSRT order that set national rates for truck owner-drivers "strongly discourages" making similar orders in other jurisdictions, but Shadow IR Minister Brendan O'Connor says it is "long on opinion and short on evidence".
A mineworker who along with his workmates bullied a hardworking colleague and used their vehicles to box him in on a highway has failed to convince the FWC he was unfairly dismissed.
The FWC has rejected an agreement for security officers at Centrelink offices, finding its loaded rates failed to ensure that those who worked Sundays were better off overall.
Victoria's corruption watchdog has found that a government regulator had a "complete absence" of controls over $355,000 paid under a deal with a union to rent four properties over nine years, including a beachside residence allegedly used for holidays by the union's secretary.
A Perth Airport baggage handler has been compensated after the FWC found it unfair to sack him for "extremist" social media posts, including "we all support ISIS", that purportedly sympathised with terrorist groups.
A full Federal Court has quashed the approval of an allegedly substandard security services agreement and sent it back to the FWC, finding a full bench failed to properly formalise its ruling and to consider United Voice claims that it didn't pass the BOOT.
Unions representing police, nurses and ambulance officers have expressed strong reservations over the Turnbull Government's legislation to defend the role of volunteers in Victoria's Country Fire Authority, while Professor Andrew Stewart says parties might be able to readily sidestep the legislative restrictions via side deeds.
