Former Queensland Council of Unions leader Grace Grace has taken over the State's IR portfolio after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced a cabinet reshuffle today.
ACTU secretary Dave Oliver says that unions are "very receptive" to the Turnbull Government's emphasis on innovation, after the "negativity and conflict" under former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
A company took unlawful adverse action when it sacked an employee after he exercised a workplace right to refuse to temporarily work in a higher classification, the Federal Court has ruled.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a resident caretaker of a luxury resort, even though he is manager, is a "worker" eligible to pursue an anti-bullying claim.
CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon will go to a contested committal hearing in March next year on the blackmail charges brought by the Royal Commmission police taskforce over the 2013 Boral concrete bans.
The new secretary of the NUW's NSW branch, Wayne Meaney, has been stood aside after the Heydon Royal Commission queried some of his spending on a union credit card.
The Federal Treasury used a "cabinet sensitive" briefing to urge newTreasurer Scott Morrison to boost labour market flexibility, seizing the opportunity presented by the Productivity Commission's review of Australia's workplace system.
A Fair Work Commissioner was correct in ordering 38 Alcoa MV Portland crew members to sail one-way to Singapore so that the vessel could be sold, even though it meant the loss of their jobs, a full bench has found.
The Labor Party's plan to fight corruption in unions will involve the Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigating the most serious breaches of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act.
Victoria Police have today charged CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka and his deputy Shaun Reardon with blackmail, for allegedly pressuring concrete supplier Boral over its relationship with the builder Grocon.
