The High Court will today hear the CFMEU's argument that Boral can't use court discovery processes to force the union to produce documents that might expose it to punishment for contempt for allegedly defying injunctions on Victoria's Regional Rail project.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has criticised a tribunal member for failing to abide by an earlier full bench decision because he did not agree with its interpretation of the Fair Work Act's scope order provisions.
The NUW says there is no basis for a Linfox Australia submission to the Productivity Commission that recommends a radical overhaul of entry laws and cites a "case study" that criticises the union's conduct at a major retailer's warehouse.
The Office of the Australian Small Business Commissioner is pushing for the full adult wage to be paid from the age of 18, questioning the rationale behind the IR system "deeming adulthood to commence at 21".
A Mahjong club took unlawful adverse action when it unilaterally moved a full-time employee to part-time after he sustained a leg injury and claimed workers' compensation, a court has found.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a senior construction union official's breaches of the Fair Work Act when he held an unauthorised stopwork meeting that led to a $3,500 penalty wasn't serious enough for it to deny him a new entry permit.
Australia's recent free trade agreements with China and South Korea could "cut across" international labour standards, according to the ACTU, which wants the Productivity Commission to recommend their review.
Restrictions on employers' use of contractors would be illegal and subject to penalties of up to $10 million, which would also be the maximum fine for secondary boycott breaches, under recommended changes to competition laws.
A dismissed employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that an accidentally-sent text in which she called her employer a "complete d-ck" was a "lighthearted insult".
