The main pilots' union at Jetstar will recommend that its members accept a new in-principle deal with the airline that includes the group-wide 18-month wage freeze Qantas management is pushing.
The Federal Court will examine the multi-level marketing operations of an international networking business after the Federal Circuit Court ruled that a sham contracting case launched by the FWO was complex and lengthy enough to go to a higher authority.
A phone call from former AWU national secretary Paul Howes complaining that the CFMEU's Pilbara organiser was a "Trot" who was bagging the AWU has led to the organiser's sacking and ultimately to an adverse action finding against the CFMEU.
The SA Supreme Court has ruled that Adelaide's Prince Alfred College was not vicariously liable for the sexual assault of a student by one of its teachers more than fifty years ago.
As counting continues in Queensland, at least 13 of the newly-elected MPs set to take up seats in the state's parliament have arrived there via an IR route.
Confirming this afternoon that he will run against ACTU secretary Dave Oliver at the peak body's May Congress, assistant secretary Tim Lyons said that unions needed to stop defining themselves by what they opposed and become the champion of the nation's working people.
The Federal Government has told the High Court that the Queensland Government's argument against a union challenge to legislation removing Queensland Rail workers from the federal IR system would thwart the operation of the Constitution's corporations power.
ACTU president Ged Kearney has confirmed that there is "sounding out happening" over a possible change in the leadership of the peak union body, but she will continue to support incumbent ACTU secretary Dave Oliver.
The Federal Government is trying to curb lawful industrial action and reduce the likelihood that bargaining will result in collective deals in a bill it introduced into federal Parliament late last year, according to the ACTU.
