A volunteer placed in an overseas posting by an Australian organisation has had his bullying application rejected on jurisdictional grounds, with the Fair Work Commission also finding his manager's actions were reasonable.
The CFMEU's construction division says a major builder has already offered to roll out its new drug and alcohol policy across its sites, just hours after announcing it.
The CFMEU’s mining and energy division has failed to convince the Federal Court that Anglo Coal took adverse action against one of its delegates for taking sick leave, or that it breached his employment contract when it sacked him for serious misconduct.
Employment Minister Eric Abetz's own department is set to join the ranks of federal public servants taking protected industrial action this bargaining round, with an overwhelming majority endorsing the CPSU's ballot proposals.
A full Federal Court has struck down the Coalition's attempt to exclude foreign workers on offshore resources projects from Australian labour standards, throwing their employment status into doubt.
The massive Gorgon LNG project's largest contractor is putting a revised roster arrangement to workers who last year rejected a proposal that would have reduced their consecutive working days from 26 to 23.
FWC bench to decide whether foreign company workers count; No extension despite lack of employer opposition; & Constitutional challenge to unfair dismissal regime "academic".
The ACTU will ask the Fair Work Commission for an extra 0.5% in award superannuation to compensate for the Abbott Government's freezing of Labor's scheduled increases to the guarantee levy, in its submission to this year's annual wage review to be lodged on Friday.
With its legislation to restore the ABCC facing a hostile Senate, the Federal Government has as a fall-back introduced a Bill to extend the FWBC's coercive powers beyond their May expiry date.
