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.
Ferguson pushes for special long-horizon agreements for resource projects; National IR survey returns after hiatus of almost 20 years; Tables compare FWC bullying regime with other forums for complaints; ABCC Digest available questions whether legislation matters; Mammone leaves ACCI; and Absence of final arbitration in Act favours employers, says study.
The CFMEU has lost the first of three appeals stemming from the Fair Work Commission's decision last year to review its right of entry practices at Lend Lease's Adelaide projects.
The Federal Court has fined a panelbeating business and its director $41,500 for pressuring an employee to resign after his cancer diagnosis, sacking him when he refused to acquiesce and withholding his termination entitlements.
The Federal Court has granted James Ashby leave to appeal against the finding that his sexual harassment action against former Speaker Peter Slipper was an abuse of process, holding the original judge did not exercise "appropriate caution" in determining motivation.
The MUA has been forced to call off protected industrial action in the offshore sector that was due to start today against Tidewater Marine, after the company secured a Federal Court injunction.
