Adecco manager under unfair dismissal earnings threshold; Victorian disability services industrial action allowed to continue; and printing and graphics arts associations to merge.
The reign of CFMEU construction and general division WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald could be under threat, with long-serving organiser Mark Hudston mounting a challenge in next month's union election.
Telstra and communication unions are hopeful that a new, single enterprise agreement to cover the majority of the company's employees will be in operation by the end of October.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has held that Abigroup Contractors was denied procedural fairness when it wasn't allowed to call a witness during a hearing of unfair dismissal claims by four workers who lost their jobs in what the company claimed were "plain vanilla" redundancies.
A Federal Court judge has this morning rejected self-represented federal parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper's argument that James Ashby's sexual harassment case against him should be dismissed because the staffer had settled with the Commonwealth.
SDA greenfields deal survives appeal; Commonwealth Bank appeals mutual trust and confidence ruling; and Court fines company director for refusing to provide employment records
Former HSU national president Michael Williamson has been arrested by NSW police officers from Strikeforce Carnarvon this morning and charged with 20 criminal offences for hindering a police investigation and making false statements.
ACTU president Ged Kearney has claimed an increase in secure employment, career development and proper training for workers will contribute to greater productivity growth, pointing to ABS data that shows almost a quarter of the nation's employees are engaged as casuals.
Fair Work Australia has refused to grant employees in the oil and gas industry an extra day of compassionate leave, while it has varied four awards to correct anomalies and technical deficiencies, in the first batch of modern award decisions.
