The impact on public sector bargaining of the implied constitutional limitation on Commonwealth interference with state governments is still not well enough understood, according to long-serving CPSU Victoria secretary Karen Batt.
In a rare consent arbitration under the Fair Work Commission's bargaining assistance provisions, the tribunal has awarded oil refinery workers who accepted a pay freeze for the first two years of their four-year agreement increases only "moderately in excess of CPI" for the remainder of the deal's term.
A maths teacher employed as a casual for one month is suing the public school's principal and his supervisor for defamation after they assessed him – using a pro forma departmental form - as suitable only for limited casual teaching roles.
Maurice Blackburn waived $15,000 in legal fees for restructuring a company called Industry 2020, which the law firm described in emails as a "slush fund" run by the leadership of the AWU's Victorian branch.
The AWU's Victorian branch received monthly payments of $4000 from mushroom growers Chiquita Mushrooms during the time that Bill Shorten was branch secretary, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has overturned the reinstatement of a Sydney Harbour captain sacked for failing a drug test after crashing his ferry into a wharf.
A court has rejected a discrimination complaint from an indigenous graduate employee of the former DEEWR, after accepting that the department's prompt, reasonable and informal response to a racially offensive remark should have ensured the employee wasn't injured in the enjoyment of her work.
The FWBC has launched another prosecution targeting individual workers, this time claiming 67 employees took unlawful industrial action on a major construction project in the Northern Territory last year.
