The ACTU and aviation unions have sought details on the 5000 jobs Qantas is planning to cut, its outsourcing plans, and its proposed wage freeze ahead of a meeting with management in Sydney today.
The Fair Work Commission has criticised a major Australian corporation for failing to give enough support to an employee who sought an internal transfer on medical grounds so that he could continue working, despite finding that his dismissal for abusing a manager was not unfair.
The Senate will publish thousands of documents from the Fair Work Commission's investigation into former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson on its website tonight after Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells this afternoon successfully moved a motion authorising their release.
The CFMEU has failed in a bid to argue that a judge was mistaken in finding against the union in a right of entry case and then ordering it to pay half the costs.
Monash University employees have today walked off the job after more than 30 negotiation meetings with management failed to achieve a new enterprise agreement, while NTEU members continue to agitate at Queensland, WA and Western Sydney universities and the union considers a legal challenge to a non-union vote that succeeded narrowly.
Flagging new strategies to give workers a collective voice, ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons has rejected recent calls for an "accommodation" with employers and told unions not to be afraid of conflict and controversy.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has quashed a $9,000 costs order against IR consultancy Livingstones but has advised it to settle before a re-hearing of the costs application or face a bigger payout.
Five unions have asked the High Court to find that Queensland Rail workers remain covered by the Fair Work Act despite the Queensland Government's de-corporatisation of their employer last year, in a case with implications for any state government contemplating bringing public sector workers back into their IR systems.
In a big win for supermarket giant Coles, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled that its online delivery drivers are covered by the major retail award, throwing out the TWU's long-running claim that they are employed in the transport industry.
