Unions NSW to mount legal challenge to election spending curbs; New tripartite mining body; FWA advertises for members and general manager; and Reith, Lloyd and Sloane at Press Club.
The Federal Court has temporarily frozen a final warning issued by a Visy company to a health and safety representative who sidelined two defective forklifts, after finding he had a "strong prima facie case" that the company had taken the action because he had exercised a workplace right.
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.
