Toyota unions will find out more in coming weeks about what the company means in announcing yesterday that it will seek variations to its enterprise agreement to increase its long-term manufacturing viability.
There is now an implied mutual term of trust and confidence in nine million Australian employment contracts, according to Victorian barrister Mark Irving, who appeared for the ACTU in the Federal Court case that confirmed the term's existence.
Unions have told a parliamentary inquiry that proposed legal changes to the Queensland's industrial system are too prescriptive and threaten to trample on the independence of the state's industrial umpire.
The Federal Circuit Court has fined Qantas $41,250 for breaching its consultation and information-sharing obligations when it introduced a new line maintenance system that led to the redundancy of 30 LAMEs.
With Australia's new federal bullying regime set to take effect next year, the FWC has turned to the UK's national workplace tribunal for its experiences in dealing with bullying and harassment complaints.
Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark will add his weight to Boral's prosecution of the CFMEU for contempt after the Supreme Court said his interest in protecting the administration of justice was strong enough for him to be joined as a plaintiff.
The CFMEU has seized on a recent auditor general's report as supporting its claims of a multi-billion dollar revenue loss from a "gaping hole" in tax laws designed to stop individuals falsely claiming business status for their work.
In a ruling that Workplace Relations Minister Eric Abetz says is a victory for common sense, the High Court has overturned - by a four-to-two majority - a decision to compensate an employee who was injured while having sex in a motel she was staying in during a two-day work trip to regional NSW.
ALP national secretary George Wright says the Coalition has learnt its lesson from the Work Choices years and will initially focus its direct IR attacks on unions rather than workers.
