In a lucrative Christmas/New Year period for the Commonwealth's coffers, the Federal Circuit Court has handed down penalties amounting to more than $580,000 in eight separate cases brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman against companies and their directors for breaches of the Fair Work Act.
The FWC has granted a scope order sought by an employer to break a bargaining deadlock, finding it is proposing a "legimitate and sensible" reconfiguration of agreement coverage that shouldn't be "stymied by fear" fostered by "apparent mistrust and friction" within unions.
NUW members who responded to a lockout by occupying the lunch room at their employer's food flavouring plant in Melbourne have returned to work after the negotiation of an in-principle deal over the weekend.
Coles meatworkers in Victoria and Tasmania were entitled to vote to take protected industrial action because they had been genuinely seeking separate enterprise agreements late last year, a FWC full bench has ruled.
A procurement manager who refused to accept a new role he believed amounted to a constructive dismissal has failed in a bid to argue that he was subject to adverse action because he took sick leave and complained about bullying by his superiors.
As the Productivity Commission begins its far-reaching IR inquiry, the first major study of Australian workplaces since 1995 shows most employers believe that workplace productivity levels are steady or improving under the existing regime.
Workers employed at Serco's immigration detention centres on the Australian mainland have resoundingly rejected an offer labelled as "substandard" by United Voice.
The FWO has completed its first prosecution of a company for failing to pay minimum wages to interns since the release of a major report on unpaid work.
