Labor and Greens members that make up the majority of a Senate committee have adopted AiG's view that substantial elements of the Abbott Government's Registered Organisations Bill are too onerous and need to be relaxed.
The Fair Work Commission has found that Sydney Montessori School was entitled to sack two of its leaders for serious breaches of their fiduciary duties and queried their lawyer's involvement in a campaign to depose the school's board.
A hardline global law firm engaged by the Queensland government is using competition and consumer laws to try to gag unions representing hospital doctors from making what it alleges are misleading claims.
The CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch is facing a bill of more than $2 million after the Victorian Supreme Court today convicted it of five criminal contempts for flouting orders not to hinder access to two Grocon sites, including the Myer Emporium project in Melbourne's CBD that was the subject of a huge blockade in August 2012.
The Abbott Government says workers who are not low paid are cornering the lion’s share of rises from the annual minimum wage review, as it seeks to champion increases achieved through enterprise bargaining rather than adjustments to award rates.
The Federal Court has overturned a ruling by the Federal Circuit Court that paint manufacturer Wattyl did not breach its enterprise agreement when it directed employees to take annual leave during a production scale-down in 2012.
The ACTU has fired the first shot in the royal commission into union corruption, finance and governance by telling the inquiry chief Dyson Heydon that it wants a ban on selective leaking of evidence to the media before hearings.
Conservative state governments and employer groups have warned the Fair Work Commission that this year's increase in minimum wages needs to be modest to avoid hurting employment.
The Federal Court has held that the Fair Work Commission can't refuse to approve agreements because they would undermine collective bargaining, in the latest ruling on the John Holland deal covering just three workers.
