Former NSW ETU leader Bernie Rordan says he was warned that litigation by a fellow union secretary could prevent his appointment to the Fair Work Commission in 2012.
The Greens will refer allegations of exploitation of foreign workers on farms and in food processing plants to a Senate inquiry into the working visa system, according to its IR spokesperson, Adam Bandt.
The Productivity Commission will look at the effect on skilled immigration numbers of making payment, rather than skills or family reunion, the primary basis for determining entry into the Australia during its wide-ranging immigration review.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a casual conversion right in a company's enterprise agreement extends to labour hire employees and is a "permitted matter" under the Fair Work Act.
The Australian Shipowners Association has told the Productivity Commission that it is important to understand that the starting point for the bargaining changes it is seeking is the "disproportionate industrial power" wielded by the maritime unions.
CPSU delegates have today voted overwhelmingly to escalate industrial action in a bid to break the year-long bargaining deadlock in the APS, starting with a strike at the ATO strike on Budget day that the union says heralds the biggest wave of industrial action in the federal public sector in 30 years.
The FWC has given in-principle approval to the federal registration of a NSW health sector employer organisation, while NSW PSA industrial staff and Australian screen directors are now covered by their own federally-registered organisations.
The bids by unions for protected action ballots for workers on the massive Gorgon LNG project are on hold for three weeks, after the FWC intervened to bring parties back to the negotiating table.
A high-earning safety advisor who attempted to downplay his role as mainly involving "tick and flick" tasks has failed to convince a tribunal that he was covered by an award and eligible to pursue an unfair dismissal claim.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld the dismissal of a BHP Billiton underground mineworker sacked after repeatedly refusing to shave off his beard to ensure his respirator operated effectively.
