The joint federal/Victorian government-funded $5.3 billion regional rail link project is shaping to become an IR battleground, with unions jockeying for positions with shortlisted bidders and the Victorian Government announcing that it will send workplace inspectors onto the site.
Retailers will soon have the right to hire school students on 90-minute casual after-school shifts, after a Fair Work Australia full bench today rejected an SDA appeal.
BHP is facing further industrial action at its Bowen Basin coal mines plus a union-funded advertising campaign after declaring on the weekend that negotiations with site unions had reached an impasse and it would put a proposed new agreement directly to workers.
NSW strike force to investigate HSU allegations; Lawyers for CEPU members agree to settle Pluto case; Employees of federal mega-department vote down proposed agreement; Defence employees to implement bans; and Ride to Work Day only four weeks away.
Fair Work Australia has rejected an application by Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Limited for a two-month suspension of industrial action across its operations.
An anti-discrimination tribunal's appeal bench has highlighted the difficulties that unrepresented employees with arguable cases face in establishing they have been subject to unlawful discrimination.
The NSW IRC has docked a union delegate for his "inappropriate" and aggressive behaviour when he refused to undertake a urine drug test, but has reinstated him to his former environmental officer position after finding his dismissal harsh.
A former trucking company owner who physically assaulted a TWU official and sacked all of his employees has been ordered to pay the union and employees more than $40,000 in penalties and compensation for his adverse action.
Employer fined for failing to make backpayments for unfair AWAs ; Planking workers fined for safety breaches; Psychiatric prison guards win pay increases; Child protection conciliation breaks down; Melbourne Council to consider scanning workers as they clock on and off.
