Job security remains the sticking point in negotiations between the MUA and Fremantle Port Authority to try to avert a strike scheduled to start on Monday.
Discount department chains Big W and Target have locked in pay rises averaging less than 3% for the next three to four years under new enterprise agreements approved by FWA this week.
In a decision that clarifies the effect of the interaction rules under the Fair Work Act, a FWA full bench has rejected an application to remove OHS provisions from a number of modern awards.
Harmer denies Ashby case politically motivated; Employee denied natural justice, says FWA; and Worker injured during motel sex entitled to compensation.
Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Eric Abetz has hit back at federal government criticism of the Coalition's delay in releasing its IR policy, calling on WR Minister Bill Shorten to reveal his election agenda first.
The High Court has today thrown out the NSW PSA's challenge to the O'Farrell Government's public sector pay cap legislation, with one judge describing the union's appeal as "hopeless".
The Federal Court has dismissed the sexual harassment case by former federal Speaker Peter Slipper's one-time media adviser, James Ashby, holding in a stinging judgment delivered this morning that it was launched predominantly to expose Slipper to maximum political damage.
DEEWR is advertising the two Fair Work tribunal vice president jobs created by the federal government under legislation passed by parliament in its last sitting week of the year.
