An employer being prosecuted by the FWO for allegedly taking adverse action against a pregnant employee has failed to convince the Federal Court that the watchdog should have gone first to Fair Work Australia, while the court also ruled that the six-year time limit applied to the claim.
In a significant development, the CFMEU (mining & energy division) and Rio Tinto have struck an in-principle agreement for the company's iron-ore operations in the Pilbara - the first union collective deal there in 18 years.
Coal mining workers at BHP Coal's Bowen Basin mines in Queensland will hold six-hour stoppages over three days next week, after endorsing a range of protected action in a ballot declared on Friday.
Fair Work Australia's President has declined to respond to Opposition questions during Senate Estimates hearings about whether he is performance-managing a tribunal member who had six rulings overturned on appeal.
ABC Commissioner Leigh Johns will ask the Commonwealth Ombudsman to include the s52 compulsory examination he has already conducted in its review of his use of the power, he told recent Senate Estimates hearings.
Big fine for director’s accessorial liability; CPSU seeks first strike ballot in APS campaign; and Closure of Qantas pilots' ballot extended to July 6.
Mining employers revive "fighting fund" concept; Public transport not an essential service: FWA; He's back: Hanke returns as HR Nicholls Society's PR director; Police prosecutors add support to police officer's industrial action; and Aged care redundancies lead to FWA dispute hearing.
Sydney Water and a supervisor must pay $5,000 in damages over a "weak and unfunny" racist joke that was told in the workplace in the presence of an Aboriginal worker, but the Federal Magistrates Court has refused to find that the incident was part of systemic discrimination at the utility.
New laws to fetter the NSW IRC's power to set state public sector wages are set to be passed by NSW Parliament, after the O'Farrell Government on the weekend gagged a marathon debate and forced its legislative changes through the Upper House.
