Queensland unions have won another round in their long-running campaign for arbitrated pay increases in the state public sector, with the Queensland Supreme Court ordering that their application for interim wage rises again be re-considered by the state IRC.
Forecasts of increased demand for bricklayers, tilers and chefs and a drop in completion rates for apprenticeships have led to the Federal Government making it easier for overseas workers to gain work in these occupations in Australia.
The SDA is pushing for annual pay rises of 5% for about 85,000 employees at Coles supermarkets, while declaring that the 2% annual pay increase under a new deal for Apple retail workers is "under par".
Ex-AWU official Bruce Wilson says his sidekick Ralph Blewitt confessed to spending Workplace Reform Association funds on home renovations and gambling, while Wilson says he never paid for any house improvements in the mid-1990s for future prime minister Julia Gillard.
A court has found that a law firm acted quickly to investigate claims of harassment by one of its solicitors and was entitled to treat emails from her stating that the employment relationship had broken down as a resignation.
An accounting firm dismissed a client manager because of serious misconduct rather than the "several and various exercises of his workplace rights" in the lead-up to his dismissal, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
Former AWU Victorian branch president Bob Kernohan has told the Heydon Royal Commission that a young Bill Shorten counselled him almost 20 years ago to "think of his future" as the frontrunner for preselection in a safe Labor seat when he insisted on exposing union officials he believed to be corrupt.
A senior member of the Fair Work Commission has reinstated a Coles forklift driver who was involved in a fight with a colleague, finding his dismissal harsh given his good record over 18 years of employment and his relatively passive role in the altercation.
Future Prime Minister Julia Gillard told a Melbourne builder in 1993 that AWU leader and her then boyfriend Bruce Wilson was paying for her home renovations, the Heydon Royal Commission has heard.
