Modern award transfer of business provisions that guarantee a new employer's recognition of prior service are set to be adjusted after a FWC full bench found they conflict with the National Employment Standards.
An employer has been restrained from dismissing an employee who allegedly sent inappropriate emails, until a dispute is resolved about the disciplinary process.
A CFMEU organiser who threatened to "go to war" with a sub-contractor on the Royal Adelaide Hospital project was in contempt of an order banning him from the site, the Federal Court has ruled.
The FSU's national executive "intervened" to stymie national secretary Fiona Jordan's plan to engage an external investigator to examine a senior industrial officer's bullying complaint against assistant national secretary Geoff Derrick, a FWC decision has revealed.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected the AMWU's reliance on a petition to argue for a majority support determination for water treatment employees after the union failed prove the documents were at all times under control of its organisers or delegates.
The Abbott Government has quietly dropped re-establishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission and creating the Registered Organisations Commission as "major priorities" in its 2015-16 Budget.
Rates of pay excluding bonuses in the private sector are growing at the slowest rate since the ABS began publishing the Wage Price Index in the late 1990s, while rises in private sector federal agreements remain near historic lows, according to data released today.
The Heydon Royal Commission will next week issue a discussion paper that will canvass whether penalties for union officials who breach their duties should be brought into line with those for company directors under the Corporations Act.
A sacked manager has won an extension of time for her late unfair dismissal claim, after the FWC accepted that her lawyer was responsible for lodging it 32 seconds after the 21-day cut-off.
