Tensions are rising at BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla steelworks, ahead of workers voting next week on whether to accept "game-changing" cuts to pay and conditions to keep the facility open.
Major employers Sydney Water, Kimberley Ports, Bluescope Steel and News Limited and unions such as the MUA, AMWU and ASU are all taking part in a new Fair Work Commission mentoring service designed to prevent future disputes.
A Federal Court judge has ordered the CFMEU and eight senior officers to pay more than $150,000 in fines for their conduct in the 2012 blockade of Grocon sites that demonstrated a "deplorable attitude" toward the IR system.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected the CFMEU's claims that an employer engineered "sham redundancies" to coerce workers into accepting a variation to its enterprise agreement that will halt annual pay increases.
The Fair Work Amendment Bill cleared its final hurdle this evening when the Government-controlled House of Representatives accepted changes made by Senate crossbenchers.
An employer might have to give an unsuccessful job candidate a documents exchanged as part of a pre-employment screening process after an appeal panel emphasised that "good industrial relations seeks to uphold the value of transparency in the decision making process".
Unfair to sack supervisor for remark made in jest; FWC grants legal representation for case to be heard on "less emotive" basis; Employer's appeal against domestic violence sacking rejected by full bench; High-earning BHPB "number two" not protected from unfair dismissal; HR business partner's $138,000 salary exceeds high income threshold; Tribunal rejects sacked worker's bid for reimbursement of counselling costs; Ranger dismissed because contract ran out, not whistleblowing; and FWC "draws the line" on "meandering" unfair dismissal claim.
