The CFMEU is asking the Victorian Supreme Court to halt further steps in Grocon's $10m tort claim arguing that if the company's case proceeds, its officials could effectively lose their right not to incriminate themselves in the FWBC's Federal Court coercion prosecution.
The AMWU says it will fight Victorian Supreme Court legal proceedings brought against it by WA steel installations outfit TFG Group over a picket at a Little Creatures brewery construction site in Geelong, claiming that the company's common law case is without foundation.
In an important ruling on the weight HR practitioners should accord to medical certificates, a court has today reinstated a weather observer who was dismissed for planning to appear on a reality television program while absent on sick leave for anxiety and traumatic stress.
Enterprise bargaining is only successful when negotiations focus on employees' wages and conditions, rather than venturing into how companies should be run or whether they should use labour hire workers, according to Qantas IR manager Peter Smith.
The Fair Work Act should be amended to stop employers using the good faith bargaining provisions to repel attempts to make agreements, according to CFMEU construction and general division national secretary Dave Noonan.
Former Darebin mayor Diana Asmar will contest the election for HSU Victoria No. 1 branch secretary after her nomination was declared valid by the Federal Court.
The broad agreement that now exists on the link between harmonious workplaces and productivity improvement is "perhaps the biggest development in Australian workplace relations since the introduction of enterprise bargaining 20 years ago", according to FWA Vice President Graeme Watson.
The AiG has delivered a scathing assessment of the Federal Government's recent and proposed IR changes and described the last year as one of "disappointment for business in the industrial relations arena".
After two years of consultation, Western Australia's Barnett Government has released its draft IR changes that seek to harmonise the state's unfair dismissal and right of entry laws, but stop short of reversing its refusal to join the national IR system.
