Former Freehills employment and IR lawyer Michaelia Cash is to be the Turnbull Government's employment minister, after the new Prime Minister announced his front bench today.
A full bench of the federal court has confirmed that terms in modern awards that provide allowances for hardships experienced by employees working in certain remote locations are not extinguished by the Fair Work Act.
Coalition members of a Senate committee have backed the passage of the Government's Bill that seeks to halt parents "double-dipping" into government and employer-funded paid parental leave schemes, but Labor and Greens senators say the change is regressive.
The CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch will pay up to $9 million in damages and costs to Boral and has given an undertaking that it won't renew its blackban on the company's concrete supplies, under a settlement deal announced today.
The Federal Court has awarded a former executive of an ASX-listed mining company more than $3.7 million after his employer breached his employment contract by failing to correctly pay his salary, superannuation, and leave entitlements – and his membership of the Union, University and Schools Club.
Fair Work President Justice Iain Ross has rejected a call by three unions to refer legal questions surrounding a restructuring dispute to a full Federal Court, after finding "nothing unusual or novel" in the case that the Commission couldn't resolve.
The CFMEU's construction and general division today won an temporary injunction to stop the Australian Federal Police from handling, viewing or copying material it seized from the union's Canberra office last month.
Ahead of a ministerial reshuffle expected on Monday, Workplace Relations Minister Eric Abetz has made his first appointments to the Fair Work Commission.
