The AWU says it has seen off an attempt by OneSteel to cut back existing conditions in steel-making by seeking to be covered by the national construction code, while ACTU leader Dave Oliver told the key affiliate's national conference today that the peak body will hire 20 marginal seat campaigners to highlight IR issues in the lead-up to the next election.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has today ordered a mining goliath to provide a union with a "genuine proposal" for a new enterprise agreement, after finding it failed to comply with the Fair Work Act's good faith bargaining requirements.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has asked a Victorian Government agency to urgently review the way it engages workers, after an investigation revealed it might be "misclassifying" employees as independent contractors.
Employers in safety-critical industries might be entitled to enforce zero tolerance policies because there is no scientific test for impairment arising from cannabis use, a Fair Work Commission full bench has suggested.
The AWU wants to turn the tables on Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton by seeking competition inquiries into whether they are trying to push smaller mining companies to the wall by flooding the iron ore market.
The Federal Court has clarified a long-disputed issue, holding that annual leave owed to workers whose employment ends has to be paid out at the same rate they would have received had they taken it while still at work.
The Productivity Commission has denied it is "sceptical" of the need for unfair dismissal laws, and says the questions it will ask in its IR inquiry is whether they achieve their purpose and if there is a better way of doing things.
A Qantas pilot who sexually harassed a female crew member while heavily intoxicated during an international stopover was responsible for his own actions and had suffered "a catastrophic fall from grace", the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting his unfair dismissal claim.
