In two separate decisions, the Fair Work Commission has ruled that it has the power to arbitrate on the use of mobile phones at BHP Coal's Bowen Basin mines and that a tram driver was unfairly sacked after being accused of using his phone while on the road.
The Harper review of competition policy recommends that the Federal Government retain the existing laws outlawing secondary boycotts, while stopping short of backing a ban on pattern agreements that impose restrictions on employers.
Thiess Pty Ltd had a valid reason for sacking an employee for sending an anti-Muslim email, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, but it has awarded the 65-year-old almost $29,000 in compensation due to his poor prospects of gaining a similar job.
HSU leader Diana Asmar has denied that an alleged slush fund linked to the leadership of the AWU in Victoria contributed about $100,000 to her election campaigns in 2009 and 2012.
The owner of a Western NSW restaurant and her chef husband have been ordered to pay a former kitchenhand $5000 each after a NSW tribunal found that the chef sexually harassed her at work.
The CPSU has today endorsed taking protected industrial action to break deadlocked public service bargaining across more than 70 agencies and 165,000 workers.
The Fair Work Commission has suspended 12 CFMEU officials' entry permits for up to five months, labeling a series of visits to Bechtel's Curtis Island LNG plants in Gladstone as "stunts".
The Fair Work Commission has put bargaining by marine engineers working on vessels servicing the offshore oil and gas sector on hold until after it rules on separate negotiations involving the other maritime unions - the MUA and AMOU.
