A judge has raised questions about the FWBC's exercise of discretion in its failed pursuit of a "very small" business for sham contracting, but has accepted that the watchdog didn't initiate the case without reasonable cause.
The Federal Court has ordered the MUA and a labour supplier to pay $800,000 in compensation and penalties for taking unlawful adverse action when they combined to deny employment to a "salt of the earth" non-union couple.
Long-serving ASU NSW and ACT services branch secretary Sally McManus has formally left the union to take up a senior full-time position with the ACTU, and has also put her hand up for one of the peak body's vice president positions.
The federal government wants the FWC's minimum wage panel to pay greater heed this year to impacts on the viability of small businesses and the axing of the carbon tax, but has declined to recommend a specific increase, while Labor has made its first-ever submission from Opposition.
An illiterate Indian cook who spoke no English has won $200,000 in compensation from a Sydney restaurant that brought him to Australia and employed him in conditions a judge said were "akin to slavery" and raised questions about the integrity of the 457 visa program.
Qantas wants companies to able to dock employee wages to recoup costs incurred in planning for protected industrial action that doesn't ultimately happen.
A volunteer placed in an overseas posting by an Australian organisation has had his bullying application rejected on jurisdictional grounds, with the Fair Work Commission also finding his manager's actions were reasonable.
The CFMEU's construction division says a major builder has already offered to roll out its new drug and alcohol policy across its sites, just hours after announcing it.
The CFMEU’s mining and energy division has failed to convince the Federal Court that Anglo Coal took adverse action against one of its delegates for taking sick leave, or that it breached his employment contract when it sacked him for serious misconduct.
