Voting has begun on the ANZ's proposed new national enterprise agreement, with the FSU campaigning hard for the workforce to throw it out and return to the bargaining table.
Honouring one of its election commitments, the Victorian Labor Government will today introduce legislation to abolish the former Coalition Government's anti-picketing laws.
The Fair Work Commission has suspended a CFMEU organiser's right of entry permit for 12 months not long after the Federal Court fined the union $205,100 for entry breaches, in two of a series of prosecutions launched by the FWBC.
The NZ Labour Party has today announced a two-year commission into the future of work, whose brief will include tackling insecure employment and the job losses and opportunities from technological change.
The main pilots' union at Jetstar will recommend that its members accept a new in-principle deal with the airline that includes the group-wide 18-month wage freeze Qantas management is pushing.
The Federal Court will examine the multi-level marketing operations of an international networking business after the Federal Circuit Court ruled that a sham contracting case launched by the FWO was complex and lengthy enough to go to a higher authority.
A phone call from former AWU national secretary Paul Howes complaining that the CFMEU's Pilbara organiser was a "Trot" who was bagging the AWU has led to the organiser's sacking and ultimately to an adverse action finding against the CFMEU.
The SA Supreme Court has ruled that Adelaide's Prince Alfred College was not vicariously liable for the sexual assault of a student by one of its teachers more than fifty years ago.
As counting continues in Queensland, at least 13 of the newly-elected MPs set to take up seats in the state's parliament have arrived there via an IR route.
