The Canadian Supreme Court has struck down privacy laws that restrict union rights to pressure individuals not to cross a picket line, because they disproportionately infringe freedom of expression.
A Fair Work Commission ruling that waterfront workers' failure to volunteer for Christmas/New Year public holiday shifts at DP World cannot be construed as industrial action will be re-examined after a successful appeal against the Commission's failure to issue interim orders to stop an alleged MUA industrial campaign.
Employer associations and unions are continuing to oppose the Abbott Government's crackdown on registered organisations, despite Coalition senators advocating changes to soften the regulatory burden of the RO Bill late last year.
The FWC has rejected two proposed enterprise agreements because the notices of representational rights provided to employees included extra information that rendered them invalid.
The Fair Work Commission has found that an employer was within its rights in dismissing an operator for allegedly planning to steal company property, rather than waiting until the theft occurred.
The Fair Work Commission has emphasised that employers can insist workers comply with social media policies that regulate conduct outside the workplace, in upholding the dismissal of an employee who refused to sign an acknowledgement that he had undergone social media training.
The Federal Circuit Court will determine civil penalties to impose on the CFMEU after finding three officials breached right of entry laws at a Brisbane CBD construction site, despite FWBC's "entirely unsatisfactory" presentation of the case.
Employment Minister Eric Abetz has identified CFMEU construction and general division official Joe McDonald's "continued conduct" as a "case-in-point" for the re-establishment of the ABCC, in his submission to the second Senate inquiry into his building industry legislation.
The chair of a major national market research company accused of sham contracting has taken a swipe at the Fair Work regime, saying the government is being "vicious" and attempting to "stitch people up, like me".
