The Fair Work Commission has allowed a CFMEU industrial officer to represent two members pursuing unfair dismissal claims, despite the union having no coverage of the workers.
The FWBC has included CFMEU construction and general division national secretary Dave Noonan in its fourth prosecution over the $1.2 billion Perth Children's Hospital project.
The construction watchdog says it pursuing action against 25 building workers who owe penalties of $135,625 dating from unlawful industrial action on the North-West shelf gas project in 2008.
A senior HR specialist from the resources industry has told AMMA's national summit today that employers need to navigate their way through existing IR legislation and not use it as an excuse for declining productivity.
The Fair Work Commission's decision to temporarily halt a planned 48-hour strike at Tidewater Marine took into account that an MUA official was unavailable to give evidence in person to the tribunal.
Former Prime Minister John Howard says that of the five big economic reforms Australian governments has implemented over the last 30 years, industrial relations is the only one that has gone backwards.
The Fair Work Commission will allow Patrick Stevedores to proceed with job cuts at the Port of Melbourne, after rejecting an MUA bid for an interim restraining order because the balance of convenience lay with the employer.
Australia must boost productivity to stay competitive, while avoiding cuts to real wages, according to the new local head of global mining giant Rio Tinto.
Refusing to reduce fines levied against a medical practice and its two principal doctors for underpaying a visually-impaired receptionist, a full Federal Court has held that the "course of conduct" penalty reductions for breaches of the Fair Work Act only apply to particular terms of awards, and not the whole instrument.
High labour costs and aggressive unions have been unfairly blamed for delays and major cost blowouts on Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project, according to a new report by leading workplace academic Bradon Ellem.
