The engineering and procurement contractor for one of Australia's largest infrastructure projects will be prohibited from refusing entry to union officials seeking access to its worksites after CEPU won a Federal Court injunction.
The Fair Work Commission has finalised a model term for time-off-in-lieu of payment for overtime, as part of the four-yearly modern award review process.
The Federal Court has penalised a university for threatening engaging in adverse action against senior teaching staff and educators when it prepared secret plans to transfer them to a new employing entity.
Major rail freight operator Aurizon plans to cut about 800 jobs over three years as it seeks to deliver up to $300 million in gains under new enterprise agreements, which exclude what the company says are "legacy conditions".
A full Federal Court majority has today found that a passively-worded redundancy clause in a university's enterprise agreement imposes firm obligations on it to exhaust other options before proceeding with compulsory redundancies.
The Federal Court has ordered a tribunal to re-hear a worker's bid for reimbursement of $20,000 for breast reduction surgery she claimed was necessary to relieve back and neck injuries she sustained in the workplace.
The Federal Circuit Court will determine whether the federal government is vicariously liable for the actions of a public servant alleged to have racially discriminated against an Indigenous co-worker when he described lollies as "black babies" and discussed Michael Jackson and "Coon" cheese in the workplace.
A mass meeting of BlueScope Steel workers in Wollongong has endorsed a "game-changing" rescue package that cuts 500 jobs, freezes pay for three years and scraps bonuses in a bid to help keep the steelworks afloat.
