The CPSU has applied for a protected action ballot at the biggest federal public sector agency, the Department of Human Services - its first such application since bargaining began under the Coalition's restrictive new public sector IR framework.
GM Holden is pushing for flexibility to make cars on Saturdays if demand continues for its flagship Commodore model in the lead-up to the closure of its Australian manufacturing operations at the end of 2017.
The High Court will decide next Thursday whether BHP Coal took adverse action against a mineworker when it sacked him for holding up an anti-"scab" sign at a picket in Queensland's Bowen Basin in 2012.
Fair Work Commissioner Leigh Johns has hit back at what he believes is AMMA's failure to paint the full picture in its recent memorandum to its members about his links to the ALP, pointing out his long history of acting for employers and his appointment to senior positions under a Coalition government.
Despite acknowledging the convention that it is a "brave or foolish" FWC member who refuses to follow a full bench ruling, a commissioner has done just that on the way to granting a union's application for a scope order for an agreement to cover workers at one of a building company's four sites.
A sacked St John Ambulance office manager who argued she breached workplace policies and procedures - including by hiring unaccredited trainers - in good faith and to meet an "urgent demand" for first aid training from the WA mining sector has failed in her common law damages claim.
The Labor Opposition has called for the Coalition to ensure the Fair Work Commission reviews thousands of enterprise agreements struck over the last year to ensure that workers are not worse off after the Government's decision to freeze increases in super contributions.
The FWBC has asked the Fair Work Commission to revoke the entry permit of an organiser for the NSW branch of the CFMEU's construction and general division who failed to disclose his criminal record.
The Fair Work Commission has held that a Victorian water authority made a "further claim" that contravened its enterprise agreement when it removed a policy providing for employees' personal use of its cars.
A Cbus Super employee has been forced to admit lying to the Heydon Royal Commission about passing on confidential membership information to CFMEU NSW branch secretary Brian Parker, after the inquiry produced phone and taxi records that directly contradicted her evidence.
