MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin has identified the migration zone and Patrick's planned automation at Port Botany as battlegrounds for the union in the coming months.
Shadow WR Minister Senator Eric Abetz has branded as "hysterical" the ACTU's response to his public comments on introducing costs to the unfair dismissal jurisdiction in an effort to stamp out frivolous claims.
The Australian Industry Group has today released its preliminary response to the FW Act review report, backing 28 recommendations, opposing 24 and lamenting the failure to curtail agreement content.
CSL Limited has withdrawn an application that would have tested whether the Fair Work Act protects people outside Australia from the effects of industrial action following an in-principle resolution of its enterprise bargaining dispute.
Up to 5000 Catholic school teachers, principals and support staff are expected to join with their Victorian Government colleagues in walking off the job for 24 hours on September 5.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has quashed a costs order against two employees who were said to have engaged in "brinkmanship" in pursuing their unfair dismissal claims after they withdrew them "unacceptably late" the evening before arbitration.
RMIT University associate professor Anthony Forsyth says the recent Endeavour Coal and Cochlear decisions demonstrate the shortcomings of the FW Act's good faith bargaining provisions and that broader access to arbitration is needed.
In a wide ranging address to the Australian Institute of Employment Rights in Sydney, Professor Ron McCallum has sought to justify the FW Act review panel's recommendations on arbitration, productivity and the JJ Richards case.
In an important development in the Cochlear battle, Fair Work Australia today found the company breached the Fair Work Act's good faith bargaining requirements during its protracted negotiations with the AMWU, and issued bargaining orders against it.
An employee who rejected a job offer from the new owners of a transmitting business that included a qualifying period for unfair dismissal purposes was entitled to redundancy pay, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
