A new report says employers need to "mainstream" flexible work by ditching terms such as "work-life support" and flexible work arrangements" that promote the perception that it is about special treatment for "a select few", such as mothers of infants and young children or workers with significant health challenges.
The AMWU told FWA today that high-tech hearing product manufacturer Cochlear had engaged in surface bargaining and stymied negotiations through its "rigid adherence" to bargaining protocols it forced on the union, while the company failed to derail the union's bid for a bargaining order.
Victorian public hospital nurses have retained nurse-patient ratios and fought off their partial replacement with health assistants, under a midnight deal with the State Government.
The 10-day arbitration of the dispute between Qantas and the TWU that contributed to last year's grounding of the airline will not begin on Monday as scheduled.
The Federal Court has today thrown out a sexual harassment case based on "false" allegations by a former employee of CBA subsidiary Commonwealth Securities Limited.
The newly-released report into HSU's now-defunct Victorian No. 1 branch identifies a long list of financial and accounting irregularities by the union and senior officials that will form the basis of penalty proceedings FWA will pursue.
The ACTU will seek a $26-a-week increase to minimum award wages up to the tradespersons rate and 3.8% beyond that, in this year's minimum wage case, while the major employer groups are supporting increases of $14-a-week or less.
Despite reaching in-principle agreement on a new enterprise deal for its four container ports across Australia late last year, Patrick is experiencing renewed industrial action, with a 48-hour strike underway at Fremantle and FWA this week ordering a halt to an alleged "go-slow" at Port Botany in Sydney.
A male health care worker has been fined $10,000 for s--ually harassing a colleague by giving her a s--ually explicit document that led to her making a complaint to the police, while their employer has escaped liability because it had taken "reasonable steps".
