FWA has for the first time made it clear that parties can face costs for vexatious conduct if they don't properly respond to a general protections application, such as by failing to attend conciliation conferences.
Australian workers have been buffeted by "rolling" uncertainties and are now feeling "personally pressured" by rising living costs and fears, after a phase of feeling "structurally pressured" during the global financial crisis, according to Liberal Party pollster Mark Textor.
Confusion over Fair Work Australia's approach to agreements containing opt-out clauses is continuing after a full bench today divided on two CFMEU appeals, with the majority declining to be bound by a key authority.
The NSW Supreme Court has granted interlocutory injunctions restraining two former construction insurance managers despite a delay in their former employer taking legal action that would normally be "fatal" to such a bid.
Review handed to Shorten; Digest highlights DEEWR view about constitutionality of Greens work/life balance bill; and Employee fails to win indemnity costs following $44,000 compensation order.
A court has fined an OHS representative $3500 for taking adverse action when he refused to induct non-CFMEU subcontractors at a construction site, in the new Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate's first FOA prosecution.
Claims by James Ashby, the former media advisor to federal Speaker Peter Slipper, damaged the Government and furthered the aims of his political opponents, the Federal Court heard today.
The Federal Court will hand down its decision on the HSU's administration on Thursday after this morning rejecting an adjournment application by national secretary Kathy Jackson - despite her counsel saying she wanted to put to the court an allegation that would have an "absolutely dynamic" effect on the case.
Federal Court full court upholds mandatory drug test regime; FWA orders halt licensed engineers' industrial action; NSW inquiry recommends axing journey cover; Make public services contestable to unlock productivity gains, says Sturgess; and Chubb fails to halt alleged "covert" industrial campaign.
Fair Work Australia has become a "micro-manager" of industrial relations, abandoning the tribunal's world leadership in independent conciliation and arbitration and its involvement in "seminal" disputes, according to the last industrial registrar.
