The Supreme Court has this afternoon extended injunctions against the MUA and its Victorian branch secretary Kevin Bracken preventing them from hindering access to and from Qube Ports' Station Pier site at Port Melbourne, finding there was a serious case to be tried that they had been involved in an unlawful picket.
The FWC has rejected ALAEA objections and approved an agreement between Qantas and the AWU, AMWU and CEPU that delivers 1200 aircraft maintenance workers pay rises above the airline's standard 3% annually via a revamped classification structure.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott has vowed to introduce his crackdown on registered organisations in the first parliamentary sitting week following the upcoming federal poll if the Coalition is elected.
An eco tour operator has failed to convince the Federal Court that its marketing manager breached his contract of employment by not giving four weeks' notice of his resignation, misusing confidential information and planning to set up a rival business during his engagement.
The BCA has nominated direct engagement between employers and employees as one of seven policy settings it maintains are necessary to foster productivity and has included Australia's "high minimum wage" on its list of what a Productivity Commission IR inquiry should examine.
The Victorian Supreme Court has taken the rare step – in IR matters – of appointing a picketing former employee as a representative of all other picketers in banning any blockading of Qube Ports Pty Ltd's Port Melbourne terminal by the MUA and supporters.
A Federal Circuit Court judge has relied on a mechanical fitter's inadvertent mobile phone recording of a meeting with his supervisor to reject his claim that he was unduly pressured to accept deductions in remuneration.
A NSW transport business and its director have been fined a record $286,704 by a Federal Circuit Court judge for engaging in wilfully blind sham contracting and underpaying seven drivers.
