A stand-off over the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation's payments to the ACTU's campaign fund has raised doubts over whether its delegates will be entitled to attend the peak body's triennial Congress in May.
The Federal Court has ordered a lawyer to personally pay another party's legal costs in a general protections claim, finding that he unreasonably advised his client to add his employer's solicitor to the application.
The Fair Work Commission has rebuffed a Federal Government bid to increase public sector working hours from 36.75 to 38 hours a week and boost the span of hours by 90 minutes a day.
The NSW Court of Appeal has overturned a $288,000 retrenchment payout to a former executive, finding that his position had not been made redundant because his employer transferred enough of his duties to a new manager.
The gap between wage rises in federal collective deals and pay increases recorded in the Wage Price Index grew again in the September quarter of last year, with bargaining delivering annual average increases of 3.5%.
The Fair Work Commission has approved a three-year staff agreement for rail freight operator Aurizon that union concerns with the employee voting process had delayed.
The Federal Court has rejected an attempt by the CEPU's communication division head to recoup $208,859 in superannuation fund board fees paid to a factional rival
The Productivity Commission, in issues papers released today for its inquiry into the IR system, asks for submissions on whether IR and competition laws should remain separate and whether employers should have options for protected action short of locking out their employees.
The Productivity Commission has launched its long-awaited inquiry into Australia's IR system by querying whether unions have "lost their pre-eminent role" as employee representatives.
