The Independent Education Union is seeking a scope order in the FWC, arguing an organisation-wide enterprise agreement would mean that "bingo callers determine the pay and entitlements of university-qualified teachers".
The marginal seat campaigning model unions used to help secure the election of Victoria's Andrews Labor Government is set to provide the template for their efforts in the federal election.
7-Eleven will settle all underpayment claims and won’t apply any time limits, in the wake of allegations that franchisees systematically exploited employees, company chair Russell Withers has told a Senate inquiry.
A real estate agency's last-minute implementation of a new anti-bullying policy wasn't enough to stop the FWC from ordering it to cease bullying a property consultant that its sales administrator deleted as a Facebook friend after likening her to a "naughty little schoolgirl running to the teacher".
A legally-qualified former lecturer who claims she was psychologically-injured by alleged sex and pregnancy discrimination at a sandstone university has failed in a bid to join four academics as respondents to her case.
The Heydon Royal Commission has decided not to recall former HSU national secretary Kathy Jackson as a witness before it delivers its final report at the end of the year.
Public servants employed by 10 of the largest APS agencies will walk off the job tomorrow to protest what the CPSU says is the federal government's "strategic" hard-line approach to bargaining.
Festering tensions within the Queensland branch of the CFMEU's construction and general division have been exposed by a secret recording from July this year that has been released by the Heydon Royal Commission.
A long-running dispute between the meatworkers' union and Teys Australia over pay and conditions at the company's Beenleigh abattoir has taken another turn, with the Fair Work Commission agreeing to hold off on arbitration until the Federal Court rules on the latest in a series of legal challenges by the company.
