Qantas will axe 1,000 jobs over the next year, cut the pay packets of its chief executive and board and freeze executives' wages and scrap their bonuses as it faces losses of up to $300 million in the first half of the financial year.
A FWC full bench has adhered to "a long line of authority" in overturning a ruling that a Melbourne taxi driver who worked for the same cab owner for 16 years was an employee.
The criminal trial of Craig Thomson finally kicked off in the Victorian Magistrates Court this morning, with the prosecution outlining 66 occasions between August 2002 and February 2008 when the former HSU national secretary allegedly misappropriated an accumulated $28,000 in union funds.
As the Senate prepares for a second inquiry into the Coalition's registered organisations bill, government members of the committee that has just examined it have recommended a slight easing of its tough disclosure requirements, while Labor senators want parliament to reject it outright.
A draft Productivity Commission report on the mobility of workers warns against imposing "excessive regulation" that could impede successful employer staffing strategies, such as using FIFO and temporary migrant workers, to secure workers in remote areas.
The Abbott Government has ended the moratorium imposed in 2007 by the Rudd-Gillard Government that stopped employers applying to self-insure under the Comcare scheme.
Part of Victoria Police's case against former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson has fallen over this morning after the Magistrates Court ruled that some of the 220-plus charges could not be pursued under the Victorian Crimes Act.
The NSW IRC has lauded agreements that provided innovative communication and consultative provisions that helped to deliver multi-billion-dollar coal port construction projects in Newcastle without industrial disputes and with minimal lost time due to injuries, while an IR academic says the "Hunter model" of collaboration and cooperation deserves "national attention".
In a rare case involving the establishment of an employer's workplace right under an enterprise agreement, the Federal Court has found that the CFMEU mining and energy division took adverse action against BHP Coal by imposing an overtime policy at its Peak Downs mine in Central Queensland.
