The ACTU has told a Senate inquiry that the Fair Work Commission should be given more powers to resolve intractable "first contract" bargaining disputes, opening a window to its current discussions with the federal government over expanding arbitration under the Fair Work Act.
A football club manager who received more than $20,000 compensation for unfair dismissal - and then legal costs because her former employer contested the unfair dismissal vexatiously - has been awarded a further $2000 in costs because the club's representatives failed to provide her with all relevant documents.
McDonald's Australia has today won a single interest authorisation that will enable it to bargain for a replacement agreement to cover its own 200-plus fast food outlets and almost 700 run by 250 franchisees.
More than a quarter of Australia's 11.5 million workers are either casuals or independent contractors but the figures for both have either steadied or fallen in recent years, according to ABS data released today.
A tribunal has rebuffed Downer EDI Mining's bid for a six-year exemption from anti-discrimination laws to allow it to give preference to indigenous employees, ruling it unnecessary because the company is already meeting its internal targets.
McDonald's back in ALP; MUA leader to run; MUA's Evans to run in Hasluck; Campbell to fill in for Wilson; and Abbott being strategic on IR policy release.
A sacked Orica Australia shot-firer who was "misled" when told by his paid agent that his unfair dismissal claim had been lodged has had his late application accepted by the FWC.
The Federal Court has found that a sacked employee did not have an enforceable right to an internal oral disciplinary hearing, holding that the "plain words" of his enterprise agreement prevailed over a decade of custom and practice.
