A tribunal has ruled that Victoria Police's crackdown on officers sporting beards does not breach discrimination laws because it is authorised by the state's Police Regulation Act, despite one leading senior constable claiming that the new policy forced him to sport a 1970s "porn moustache".
A Federal Court majority has upheld the CEPU's challenge to a six-month industrial action ban the FWC ordered during last year's protracted Queensland children's hospital construction dispute.
Sydney Institute executive director Dr Gerard Henderson says Tony Abbott should wind the Coalition policy clock back 30 years and adopt John Howard's plans to tackle the "soft end of union power" in the small to medium business sector, in a new analysis commissioned by the Minerals Council.
The Federal Court has ordered an accountant to pay $476,000 in damages for sexual harassment, rejecting his argument that the relevant laws didn't extend to him as a contractor and that corridors and areas near lifts should not be counted as part of a "workplace".
National retail chain Woolworths has had a partial victory in its Federal Court full court challenge to an earlier ruling on substitute public holidays.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled that there is nothing in the Fair Work Act that prohibits discriminatory industrial action, and has quashed orders stopping NTEU work bans that affected overseas students only.
Qantas chair Leigh Clifford told the HR Nicholls Society last night that Work Choices might have swung the IR pendulum too far to the right and that employers at the time had pushed for change that went beyond what the public would accept, while one of the senators who will hold the balance of power next year said he wanted employers to be able to pay workers less than the minimum wage.
HSU acting national secretary Chris Brown told the Victorian Magistrates Court today that the union's national executive was hit with a "bombshell" four months after Craig Thomson's departure when it was told the union was broke, minutes of national meetings were missing and an initial audit had uncovered numerous financial irregularities.
The FWC has refused to issue the MUA's WA assistant secretary Will Tracey with a federal entry permit, finding he was not a "fit and proper person" under the Fair Work Act.
