Toyota Australia has struck new three-year enterprise agreements that include annual pay rises of 3% as it prepares to end local manufacturing by the end of 2017. Meanwhile, the AMWU says death of the industry and the reduced demand from components suppliers is likely to be the catalyst for restructuring of the union.
A senior employee who copped an expletive-laden intemperate tirade from his manager has failed in a Federal Court bid to establish that his employer had a common law duty to treat him with good faith.
In further legal fallout from the 2012 Grocon dispute, the Federal Court has ruled that the CFMEU and eight of its officials unlawfully coerced the company to agree to its demand to employ union-nominated shop stewards when they blocked access to the Myer Emporium and McNab Avenue sites.
The Federal Government has this morning reintroduced into federal Parliament its Bill to beef up regulation of registered organisations - which the Senate has already twice voted down.
The national secretary of the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation has been re-elected, despite a better than expected vote for a low-profile challenger from Western Australia.
A full Federal Court has ruled that two housekeepers who were pushed onto Odco-style independent contractor arrangements continued to be employees after the purported conversion, but also found that their employer had not contravened the Fair Work Act's sham contracting provisions.
NSW power workers have given notice of staggered four-hour strikes at two major "poles and wires" networks as it seeks to overcome employer objections that such stoppages will raise unacceptable public safety risks.
The Federal Government has adopted the vast bulk of changes proposed by its 457 visa program review panel, but will retain for now the ALP's labour market testing laws, despite a recommendation to scrap them.
The head of the Fair Work Commission's anti-bullying panel has highlighted the key cases in the new jurisdiction's first year, and revealed that many employers are failing to follow their own internal procedures when dealing with bullying complaints.
