Queensland's Labor Government has told public sector leaders that "passive acceptance" of union membership recruitment is insufficient, as part of its efforts to reverse the former Newman Government's IR changes, while a new LNP report concedes the former government's public service cuts were a "costly political exercise".
Many IR practitioners, including tribunal members and judicial officers, seem to believe that "discrimination is not really a matter for workplace relations law" despite the fact that 80% of discrimination claims arise on the job, new research is showing.
The Fair Work Commissioner has issued an order to halt "a campaign of covert industrial action" by wharfies that could cause Patrick Stevedores "significant disruption and financial imposts".
The High Court has refused the CFMEU special leave to challenge last year's Victorian Court of Appeal finding that the Boral group could rely on the tort of intimidation to recover millions in damages for concrete supply bans.
The Federal Court has found it "glaringly improbable" that a heavy haulage company knew that its driver suffered from a psychological condition before it dismissed him, and has sent compensation and penalty questions back to the judge who made an initial ruling.
The FWC has granted the Commonwealth Bank legal representation to help it defend a bullying claim, after the employee who lodged the complaint didn't raise any opposition.
In one of the last wages and entitlements cases pursued by the FWBC, a building subcontractor that used a labour-hire company to distance itself from it employment obligations has been fined $145,000 and ordered to backpay $150,000 to more than a dozen workers.
The AWU's Victorian branch received up to $25,000 a year from a Spotless Group subsidiary under a memorandum of understanding that meant cleaners were not paid penalty rates, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today.
Tensions over the new national agreement covering Coles supermarkets has boiled over into angry public exchanges between officials from the SDA and the meatworkers' union.
ACTU executive member Linda White has told ACTU Congress delegates that it is no longer good enough for union leadership to be dominated by the “grey beards” sharing the stage with her.
