IR regulation is a "no-go area for evidence-based policy making", according to Productivity Commission chair Gary Banks, who says this must change if Australia is to secure its productivity potential.
Fair Work Australia has rejected a company's argument that good faith bargaining ends when industrial action begins and has ordered it to give the CPSU the information it requested on employees' pay rates.
The scope for unions and their members to take protected industrial action when an employer refuses to bargain is the key issue in a test case currently before a Fair Work Australia full bench.
An indefinite strike at a manufacturing plant that caused a company "considerable" economic harm and its employees hardship didn't meet the "significant economic harm" test for suspending or terminating industrial action, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
Some 6,000 employees of Westpac subsidiaries St George and BankSA will receive guaranteed 4% pay rises under a newly-approved agreement negotiated with the FSU.
A long-awaited review has called for sweeping changes to the WA IR system, but the State Government's brief response gives little away on whether it will accept key recommendations on individual contracts and unfair dismissal.
In an important ruling on employer response action under the Fair Work Act, the Federal Court has upheld the validity of a company's notification that it would lock out its employees if they proceeded with protected strike action.
AEU unveils claim for new Victorian teachers deal; Abbott leaves the door open on IR reform; FWA updates ruling on long service leave cashing out; and Skills body declared a state system employer.
Tasmania's peak union body and a key Labor committee have called on the Bartlett Government to withdraw the state's referral of its IR powers to Canberra.
Fair Work Australia has cut in half a worker's redundancy payout after finding his employer was the "moving force" in securing him another job, but rejected the employer's argument that its parlous financial position also justified a reduction.
