In the first full bench ruling on the issue, the Fair Work Commission has found that unfair dismissal applications lodged before a termination of employment takes effect are not automatically invalid and the tribunal has the power to waive any defects in their early filing.
A Sydney-based silk with a strong suit in commercial law is tipped for the crucial role of counsel assisting the royal commission into the governance of unions and their financial dealings.
A sacked MUA delegate has won "fragile" interim reinstatement orders, after the Federal Court heard what it described as a "chilling" workplace description by two of his female colleagues.
Job candidates in Australia enjoy better privacy protection of their personal information than current or former employees, according to RMIT University's Professor Anthony Forsyth.
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.
