Federal governments, whether conservative or Labor, agree on the importance of workplace cooperation, but a lack of consensus on what the concept includes continues to stifle its implementation, according to a leading IR researcher.
The Coalition's proposed registered organisations commission will find it a lot easier to police union rules than its ill-fated predecessor from the 1970s, the federal Industrial Relations Bureau, according to IR consultant Andrew O'Brien.
The CFMEU's Victorian construction division has been found guilty of all 30 contempt of court charges against it stemming from last year's protests at Grocon's Melbourne CBD Emporium project and a western suburbs building site.
Queensland's Industrial Court has removed what unions maintained was an automatic right to backdate to September 2007 wage increases for nearly 800 of the state's allied health workers stemming from a 2007 reclassification process.
The AMWU has described as "devastating" Ford's announcement this morning that it will cease manufacturing in Australia in October 2016, resulting in the closure of its Broadmeadows and Geelong plants in Victoria and the loss of 1200 jobs.
A court has ordered a former CBA consultant to pay back almost $295,000 in overpayments the bank made after he fraudulently provided duplicate timesheets, plus invoices for public holidays he didn't work.
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A new alliance between the CFMEU and the AWU to organise Rio Tinto iron ore production workers in the Pilbara is the first step on a long road to a collective agreement, and comes on the back of five years of wider co-operation between the unions, according to their leaders.
The CFMEU wants the federal government to legislate to require stringent labour market testing before 457 visas can be granted and to extend the Fair Work Act's adverse action protections to Australian workers who miss out on advertised jobs.
