Mermaid Marine has won more flexibility in rostering for stevedores working at its Dampier supply base under a new enterprise agreement endorsed by MUA members.
The CFMEU has won the right to be covered by an agreement mining giant Glencore Xstrata struck with 21 workers it hired after ceasing production and then reopening a Queensland coal mine, but a Fair Work Commission full bench has confirmed the union had no entitlement to oppose the deal's approval.
The Fair Work Commission will lose seven members to retirement over the next twelve months, and looks set to finish the year down one senior member in Perth when Deputy President Brendan McCarthy departs on December 31.
NUW members who staged a sit-in at a Smith's Snackfoods warehouse in Brisbane have endorsed a revised offer that guarantees permanent employees will perform the lion's share of working hours.
Former TWU and NUW official Natalie Hutchins is Victoria's new IR Minister, and one of nine women in the 22-strong cabinet announced by new Labor Premier Daniel Andrews this morning.
Victorian Court of Appeal judge Geoffrey Nettle will replace Justice Susan Crennan on the High Court when she retires next year, Attorney-General George Brandis announced today
An eminent UK academic says employers are stepping up their attack on an internationally-recognised right to strike, with unions responding by pushing for the issue to be resolved once and for all by the International Court of Justice.
The CFMEU's bid for special leave from the High Court to appeal its criminal contempt conviction and a discovery order stemming from the Grocon/Boral disputes will now be heard in February next year, with the court in the meantime agreeing to stay the order.
Toyota Australia is set to cut hundreds of white-collar jobs and service positions in addition to axing 2500 production workers, once it ends local car manufacturing in late 2017.
A Fair Work Commission member denied an employer procedural fairness when he allowed a self-represented unfair dismissal applicant to escape cross examination by giving unsworn evidence from the bar table, a full bench has ruled.
