A tribunal has granted a start-up recruitment company permission to put forward women-only candidates for placement in senior management and executive roles.
ACTU secretary Dave Oliver says there is support from employer groups to scrap the four-yearly review of modern awards, while he has also revealed that the political campaign unions will mount ahead of the next federal election won’t end once a new government takes office.
The massive $54 billion Gorgon LNG project could gain an assurance of industrial peace for the largest part of its workforce, if workers employed by one of its major contractors accept a new FWC-brokered enterprise deal with fewer working days in each roster cycle.
A highly-paid bank manager was entitled to a contested $70,000 discretionary incentive bonus upon retrenchment and an ex gratia payment, due to his new supervisor's failure to properly implement a performance appraisal scheme, a court has found.
A full Federal Court has today reserved its judgment on the RTBU's bid to reinstate 12 enterprise agreements covering workers at rail freight operator Aurizon.
The FWC has upheld Westpac's summary dismissal of a bank manager who breached six of the seven principles in the bank's code of conduct when he failed to disclose an affair with a subordinate and breached a restraining order she took out.
The Federal Court has reserved its decision in a case in which Esso Australia argues that members of the AWU took unprotected industrial action, which cut its oil and gas production in Bass Strait in March and April.
The ACTU will ask unions to increase their affiliation fee from $4 to $6 per member annually to raise millions of dollars in central campaign funding over the next three years.
The Federal Court has an made an interim order restraining a school from sacking or disciplining an employee, after accepting that he might have been subject to adverse action.
A "tit-for-tat" culture of poor communication and disrespect between management and the AMWU printing division has been turned around at Orora Fibre Packaging, which has increased its profitability since participating in a "collaborative transformation process" supported by the Fair Work Commission.
