The MUA and Hutchison Ports will meet for further conciliation in the FWC next week after agreeing today to continue attempts to resolve the dispute, over the company's move to sack workers at its Port Botany and Brisbane sites via email and SMS.
Westpac and the FSU have reached an in-principle agreement on a new agreement covering about 30,000 employees across Westpac and its subsidiary banks that will for the first time remove the link between performance targets and fixed pay increases for all staff earning less than $75,000 per annum.
The Federal Circuit Court has questioned why the FWBC chose not to prosecute the director of a phoenixed bricklaying company that failed to pay correct pay and entitlements to several "daily hire" workers.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon will defer until Monday his ruling on whether to stand down as Royal Commissioner following a late request from the ACTU this afternoon.
Bluescope Steel's proposal to extend the duties of its tradespersons to improve productivity in its Port Kembla Hot Mills Business has been found to be "legal" in terms of its enterprise agreement by an FWC full bench.
An employee, sacked for his involvement in an altercation with a workmate he described as a "f***ing dog" has failed to convince the FWC he was the victim of workplace bullying and unfairly dismissed.
Boral Resources has had an early win in its court battle with the CFMEU over damages caused by concrete bans, with the Victorian Supreme Court overruling objections from the union, and allowing the company to plead a wide range of evidence on the losses it suffered.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal has today handed down its first major ruling on payments, which proposes to set minimum pay rates for truck drivers distributing goods for the major retail chains and in long distance work.
A four-hour strike by Melbourne tram drivers tomorrow is set to proceed after the Fair Work Commission rejected arguments that it would endanger public safety.
