Grocon has launched action in the Victorian Supreme Court action to stop the CFMEU "threatening, besetting, harassing or intimidating" suppliers of concrete to its building sites.
The MUA – which has been highly critical of employers' use of foreign labour - is pursuing the employment and training of Australian workers as its key claims in the latest bargaining round in the critical offshore oil and gas sector.
Reviewing apprenticeship wage structures to reflect changing demographics is essential to maintain the relevance of the modern award system, according to new Workplace Research Centre analysis released ahead of the FWC starting its review hearings into apprentices, trainees and juniors on Monday.
The Federal Court has rejected an NUW challenge to the approval of a greenfields deal, holding that the Fair Work legislation allows for "significant preparatory work" on projects before they lose their new enterprise status.
Long-serving and controversial ETU Victorian branch secretary Dean Mighell has resigned, making way for one of his assistant secretaries, Troy Gray, to take over.
Former HSU East assistant general secretary, Peter Mylan, is resisting the HSU NSW's bid to have his Federal Court general protections claim consolidated with the union's overpayment claim against him in the state's Supreme Court, together with its corruption claim against former secretary Michael Williamson.
Less than a month after Opposition Leader Tony Abbott came out in support of a "fair day's pay for a fair day's work", Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has defended Australia's comparatively high wage rates, saying there is no national benefit in cutting them.
A tribunal has ordered an employer to pay a low-paid shoe repairer $6,200 in damages for discriminating against her because she was a woman, following two earlier Federal Magistrates Court and SA IR Court decisions that awarded her more than $35,000 in compensation and penalties.
