Opposition leader Tony Abbott has vowed to introduce his crackdown on registered organisations in the first parliamentary sitting week following the upcoming federal poll if the Coalition is elected.
An eco tour operator has failed to convince the Federal Court that its marketing manager breached his contract of employment by not giving four weeks' notice of his resignation, misusing confidential information and planning to set up a rival business during his engagement.
The BCA has nominated direct engagement between employers and employees as one of seven policy settings it maintains are necessary to foster productivity and has included Australia's "high minimum wage" on its list of what a Productivity Commission IR inquiry should examine.
The Victorian Supreme Court has taken the rare step – in IR matters – of appointing a picketing former employee as a representative of all other picketers in banning any blockading of Qube Ports Pty Ltd's Port Melbourne terminal by the MUA and supporters.
A Federal Circuit Court judge has relied on a mechanical fitter's inadvertent mobile phone recording of a meeting with his supervisor to reject his claim that he was unduly pressured to accept deductions in remuneration.
A NSW transport business and its director have been fined a record $286,704 by a Federal Circuit Court judge for engaging in wilfully blind sham contracting and underpaying seven drivers.
New Race Discrimination Commissioner; ICAC Maitland findings delayed; ACTU ads see membership jump; Howes on Gillard legacy; Rudd wastes money on unions, says Coalition; and It's not "choices" that make women poorer in retirement, says report.
A senior member of the Fair Work Commission has imposed a nominal one-hour suspension of the NTEU's ban on issuing results following his finding that the industrial action was no longer threatening the health or welfare of part of Monash University's student population, but has conceded that an appeal of his decision was "almost inevitable".
