The ACTU's bid to remove former senior public servant Tony Cole from this year's annual wage review has failed, after he told the peak body in a consultation hearing this morning that he would not step down because he was not a party to the Audit Commission's recommendation to reduce the minimum wage.
Australia has been named as a "country of concern" at the opening of the third congress of the International Trade Union Confederation in Berlin, along with more usual targets of criticism.
Pacific National was justified in sacking a long-serving train driver who was 120 seconds away from colliding with another train, after failing to see and respond to two signals, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A senior IR lawyer has told the HR Nicholls Society the Fair Work Act should be amended to ban protected industrial action that has serious consequences and to remove entirely the rights of high income earners to strike, in a presentation predicting the decline of the MUA's power and influence.
The ACTU's request for a member of the Fair Work Commission's minimum wage review panel to stand aside is expected to come to a head at a hearing in Melbourne tomorrow.
A finance broking house that issued a Brisbane-based employee five payslips in six years and employed him on a commission-based agreement that it believed did not entitle him to base salary, sick pay, annual leave and superannuation entitlements has been ordered to pay him almost $124,000 in penalties.
There is no reason why proceedings shouldn't be launched to deregister the CFMEU's construction and general division, according to former Royal Commissioner Roger Gyles, who says NSW's Greiner-Fahey Government should have taken up his recommendation to eradicate one of its former predecessors, the NSW BWIU.
An aged care facility cleaner engaged in a "deliberate act of misconduct" when she encouraged a resident to complain to a current affairs program and an MP about the centre's provision of food and water to residents, the FWC has ruled.
A Fair Work Commission member's decision to recommend – rather than order - that AMIEU officials only enter a workplace monthly indicates there is still a lack of clarity about the application of new frequency of entry provisions introduced by the former Labor Government.
United Voice says Wednesday's FWC full bench decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates for restaurant casuals will hit low-skilled, female and younger workers particularly hard, but has welcomed the tribunal's recognition that Sunday continues to be an important day for families.
