The ABCC has secured its second successful sham contracting prosecution, bringing to only three the number of cases proven under the Workplace Relations or Fair Work Acts.
Productivity has stagnated or gone backwards for the past year while real labour costs have either been flat or increased over the same period, according to ABS data released today. Meanwhile, the RBA Governor has this morning said that he wasn't calling for employees to work longer hours in recently pushing for a new focus on productivity improvement.
A Fair Work Australia full bench majority has today refused a bid to have pilots employed by NZ-based Qantas subsidiary JetConnect regulated by Australian IR laws, while the minority has found that the operation is covered by the airline’s short haul pilots' award.
Fair Work Australia has come to the "tentative view" that it has no power to direct the Australian Electoral Commission to use a particular voting method when conducting protected action ballots.
Ai Group chief executive Heather Ridout has today called for a raft of changes to the Fair Work Act, including the restoration of provisions from Work Choices and its predecessor legislation.
FWA amends rules; Government seeking feedback on "Dad and Partner" parental leave payments; Union protests not a secondary boycott, says ACCC; Union to seek authorisation for industrial action in Victorian public sector; ACTU demands PC remove IR chapter from final report; MUA official recognised for anti-violence message; and High Court article technical errors rectified.
A group of about 1350 workers involved in a nine-day unprotected strike early last year at Woodside’s Pluto LNG project in Western Australia face individual penalties of up to $28,600 or an unprecedented possible collective maximum of $38.5m, if 13 construction companies succeed in a Federal Court case that starts in Perth tomorrow.
More than 3000 workers at Toyota's Altona plant today walked off the job for 24 hours and voted to do the same each Thursday and Friday for the next three weeks.
Just days before the tenth anniversary of the former Ansett Australia being placed in administration, a final $5.3 million dividend has lifted the amount the thousands of former employees will recover to 96 cents in the dollar.
Fair Work Australia general manager Tim Lee, Melbourne barrister Suzie Jones and Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal member Susan Booth have been appointed as Fair Work Australia Commissioners.
