Two labour hire companies that lost their contracts at a Tooheys site after 20 years have failed to convince Fair Work Australia that the brewery should pay the workers' redundancy.
New bid to resolve Patrick-MUA bargaining stoush; Road Safety Remuneration bills pass lower house, in Senate this evening; AiG says super contributions rise must be traded-off in minimum wage increases; FWA compensates sacked worker for child care costs; and Time extension granted to disabled worker.
A judge correctly defined a former Woolworths finance executive as a middle management employee when he determined the notice period for her dismissal, the WA Court of Appeal has found.
A new report says employers need to "mainstream" flexible work by ditching terms such as "work-life support" and flexible work arrangements" that promote the perception that it is about special treatment for "a select few", such as mothers of infants and young children or workers with significant health challenges.
The AMWU told FWA today that high-tech hearing product manufacturer Cochlear had engaged in surface bargaining and stymied negotiations through its "rigid adherence" to bargaining protocols it forced on the union, while the company failed to derail the union's bid for a bargaining order.
Victorian public hospital nurses have retained nurse-patient ratios and fought off their partial replacement with health assistants, under a midnight deal with the State Government.
The 10-day arbitration of the dispute between Qantas and the TWU that contributed to last year's grounding of the airline will not begin on Monday as scheduled.
The Federal Court has today thrown out a sexual harassment case based on "false" allegations by a former employee of CBA subsidiary Commonwealth Securities Limited.
The newly-released report into HSU's now-defunct Victorian No. 1 branch identifies a long list of financial and accounting irregularities by the union and senior officials that will form the basis of penalty proceedings FWA will pursue.
