A Federal Court full court, ruling on the long-haul pilots union's challenge to last year's Qantas lockout, has confirmed there is a "low threshold" for employer response action, with no need for it to be "reasonable, proportionate or rational".
Queensland Health must pay $21,000 compensation to a nurse for imposing "one size fits all" rostering requirements on her that she could not meet due to impairment caused by a head injury.
A Federal Court full court has rejected a health service appeal against a decision that could mean the Victorian Government has to pay between $1 and $2 million in back pay to 250 mental health nurses going back six years.
"Women in IR" high tea leads to discrimination bid; Thomson promises to make "comprehensive" statement at next parliamentary sitting; Follow-up Monadelphous Engineering protected action ballot approved; and Attempt to reduce redundancy pay rejected.
The Federal Government in last night's Budget increased Australia's permanent migration program by 5,000 places to 190,000 - with almost all the extra spots to be filled by skilled migrants.
Fair Work Australia has rejected a bid by the CFMEU to prevent the approval of a greenfields agreement it had already signed, despite the union arguing there had been a "loss of mutual trust" between it and the employer, Abigroup.
Federal spending on IR functions will drop over the next four years, mainly due to the end of education campaigns that backed up the introduction of the national IR system, tonight's Budget reveals.
Unions to seek to end "matters pertaining", stymie Qantas-style tactics; Minimum wage panel sets down two days for consultations; Government wins reprieve from FWA document order; and PC recommends schools move away from centralised IR, axing of bonuses.
Former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson committed 156 of the 181 contraventions found in the FWA investigation of the union's national office, with his offences including unauthorised spending of $5,793 of the organisation's funds on escort services and more than $250,000 on his campaign to win election as the MP for Dobell.
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has this evening promised to introduce legislation to improve the accountability and transparency of unions and their officials and to improve FWA's capacity to conduct investigations, in the wake of the public release of the report into the conduct of former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson.
