A senior prison officer's long-running bid to keep his job remains alive after he successfully challenged a ruling by a NSW IRC full bench that upheld threats to dismiss him for failing to follow correct procedures in an incident that led to the death of a prisoner.
The FWBC has included state leaders of the CFMEU and CEPU in a list it has issued today of 18 construction union officials who don't hold federal entry permits, in a bid to help the industry's employers repel unauthorised workplace visits.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected another employer application to create a modern enterprise award rather than be bound by a sector-wide modern award.
Queensland Parliament passes right of entry changes; Teys deal before FWC again; and Public sector union resolves to fight Coalition bargaining policy.
About half of working mothers experience discrimination when they are pregnant, seeking or taking parental leave or when they return to work, but only 25% of them lodge a formal complaint, according to the initial analysis of a national survey commissioned by the Human Rights Commission.
Oil and gas companies are pushing the federal government to introduce special greenfields agreements lasting more than five years for "major" projects involving at least $50m in capital spending and to boost certainty by giving employers an automatic right to an arbitrated extension of the deals.
In a case demonstrating the risks for unions and others in linking to newspaper articles on their websites, a ship's master has won $90,000 in damages from the MUA after a court found that it defamed him when it said he had placed his crew in danger.
The SDA has successfully appealed against fast food and hair & beauty industry employers having greater flexibility in compensating employees for working on public holidays.
A FWC full bench has overturned a decision to grant BP a scope order for its Kwinana refinery rather than a competing one from the AWU, holding that the views of the majority of employees should have carried more weight.
