NSW gets third IR minister in a month; Hostess Brands head to share lessons of failed bid to save company and jobs; and End of the road for BLF in Queensland.
A court has ordered a manager to pay what is likely to be a six-figure sum to his former employer, after finding he breached contractual restraints and his fiduciary duty when he secretly performed work on his own account for two major clients.
The federal government is seeking employers' views by the end of July on ways to reduce the "significant" $9 million annual burden imposed by workplace gender reporting requirements, ahead of the implementation of more onerous obligations that have been delayed until April next year.
The CFMEU is pulling out all stops to oppose a new enterprise agreement at Glencore Xstrata's Collinsville coal mine, arguing it was unlawfully shut out of representing the employees who signed up for it and that the company's application for the deal's approval is invalid.
Labor and the Greens have combined in the Senate today to defeat the Abbott Government's legislation to establish a Registered Organisations Commission and align penalties for union and employer association officials with corporations law.
The majority of a five-member Fair Work Commission full bench has left the door ajar on reduced weekend penalty rates, ruling that "transient and lower skilled" restaurant workers should be paid a total 50% loading for working on Sunday, down from 75%.
The RTBU says it will "vigorously defend" an application by privatised Queensland rail freight carrier Aurizon to terminate 14 expired enterprise agreements, as the company seeks to break a bargaining deadlock.
The body charged with reviewing the Fair Work Act has suggested that centralised wage-setting under awards might hamper the effectiveness of market signals and lead to artificially inflated pay rates, in a recently-released report on labour mobility in Australia.
The Abbott Government will introduce a four-year pause on increases to the superannuation guarantee from July 1, as it seeks to "provide business with certainty" over SG rises.
Former TWU national president and WA branch secretary Jim McGiveron has dismissed as "a complete fantasy" a claim by former AWU WA branch leader Ralph Blewitt that he was given $5000 cash in a brown paper bag to help win control of the transport union's state branch two decades ago.
