Maurice Blackburn employees are voting on whether to take industrial action over protracted agreement negotiations, as the ASU alleges the legal firm withdrew from talks after telling it to "come back when you agree".
The FWC has recommended a Perth man working on the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin be paid a living-away-from-home allowance despite renting locally when he was employed.
The FWC has knocked back an application for orders preventing three union officials entering the Ichthys LNG project, as well as the organisation of combined union meetings on site.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash will lead the push to re-establish the ABCC and to create a specialist regulator of unions, once the Federal parliament resumes on August 30.
Hundreds of enterprise agreements could be invalid due to an incorrect website being given in the notices of employee representational rights (NERR), the Federal Court has heard.
Union members are targeting official Carlton & United Breweries' Facebook pages with a series of critical posts as part of an ongoing campaign over the sacking of maintenance workers at CUB's main Victorian brewery.
The QTU says a "trailblazing" deal that lifts Queensland's Catholic school teachers' top pay rate above $100,000 is the new benchmark in negotiations for government school teachers, who are now voting on whether to take industrial action.
Senator Cash expected to continue as Federal Employment Minister; Underpayments allegation lands frozen yoghurt franchise in court; TAFE teachers have already rejected Govt "vision": union
