The Federal Government has asked the Productivity Commission to examine whether a payment system, rather than skills or family connection, should be the main criteria for determining who gains entry under Australia's non-refugee migration program.
The Federal Court has rejected a raft of adverse action claims — one of them involving exposure to a cat — against an aged care provider by a senior nurse eventually sacked for dispensing medicine without authorisation.
Toyota Australia has struck new three-year enterprise agreements that include annual pay rises of 3% as it prepares to end local manufacturing by the end of 2017. Meanwhile, the AMWU says death of the industry and the reduced demand from components suppliers is likely to be the catalyst for restructuring of the union.
A senior employee who copped an expletive-laden intemperate tirade from his manager has failed in a Federal Court bid to establish that his employer had a common law duty to treat him with good faith.
In further legal fallout from the 2012 Grocon dispute, the Federal Court has ruled that the CFMEU and eight of its officials unlawfully coerced the company to agree to its demand to employ union-nominated shop stewards when they blocked access to the Myer Emporium and McNab Avenue sites.
The Federal Government has this morning reintroduced into federal Parliament its Bill to beef up regulation of registered organisations - which the Senate has already twice voted down.
The national secretary of the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation has been re-elected, despite a better than expected vote for a low-profile challenger from Western Australia.
A full Federal Court has ruled that two housekeepers who were pushed onto Odco-style independent contractor arrangements continued to be employees after the purported conversion, but also found that their employer had not contravened the Fair Work Act's sham contracting provisions.
