Workers at BHP Billiton's five Bowen Basin coal mines have accepted the latest proposed enterprise agreement from BHP Coal, bringing to a close almost two years of intense bargaining.
Worker who complained about car wash urinator refused adverse action extension; TWU wins access to non-member IFA records; and FWA allows AWU to intervene in agreement approval.
Craig Thomson's lawyer, Chris McArdle, says in one sense it would be disappointing for FWA's allegations against his client to be thrown out on legal grounds, because part of him would like to defend the case on the facts.
A new union is seeking to cover Virgin Australia's domestic and international cabin crew, and its registration application is before Fair Work Australia for directions on Friday.
The Federal Court has fined a childcare centre and its director and ordered them to pay compensation after finding they took adverse action against a pregnant employee when they reduced her work hours and refused her unpaid parental leave.
New productivity focus for Fair Work institutions; Road safety tribunal seeking analysts; AMMA gives blessing to government deciding FWA name; and Employers must notify police of serious theft allegations, rather than just raising them in court.
A FWA full bench has recommended that parties to proposed agreements check that bargaining representatives have been validly appointed, after upholding an appeal by a Victorian private hospital group against the certification of three enterprise agreements because an unauthorised person lodged them.
Lengthy interlocutory orders against coercion and unlawful industrial action by the Queensland building unions on a state hospital project have fallen victim to the transition from the BCII laws to federal Labor's new construction industry IR regime and have been thrown out by the Federal Court.
The federal building industry watchdog has again defended the legal strategy it adopted during the recent Grocon dispute, saying that if it had sought injunctions against the CFMEU during the blockade it would have had to discontinue its investigations - which in the end had led to legal proceedings against the union.
