Patrick seeking cooling-off period for bulk and general industrial action; ACTU rolls out workers’ census; Proportion of employees with paid leave down since GFC; and Employers say profitability, working hours down since 2010 wage increase.
Greens IR spokesperson Adam Bandt has foreshadowed that he will set up a roundtable with broad representation to consider ways to make work more sustainable and has called for the Fair Work Act to be reformed to open the way for "green bargaining" on matters such as climate change.
A female employee who was told by her manager that he hired female employees based on the size of their breasts has won $2,000 in damages for sexual harassment.
FWO prosecutes MUA and WA leadership over alleged unlawful industrial action; Red light for greenfields proposal; and Social media ban lifted for NSW teachers.
The former chief executive and managing director of a listed gold mining company has failed in his Victorian Supreme Court challenge to a board decision to award him just 15% of a discretionary performance payment.
The new conservative government in NSW has in the final stage of the SACS equal remuneration case reversed the previous Labor Government's broad support for the unions' application, arguing it is flawed and must fail.
Clauses in the pattern deal for the Victorian electrical contracting sector that require contracting out to be at agreement rates and conditions, oblige employers to promote union membership, and loosen right of entry rules for dispute resolution purposes have all survived a challenge.
A 7-Eleven franchise that obtained "free labour" by systematically exploiting vulnerable international students has been ordered to pay penalties of $150,000 and backpay of $90,000, after a magistrate said she wanted to send a message that compliance with IR laws wasn't just the bastion of large employers with HR specialists.
MUA members at three of Patrick's four container terminals will go out for 24 hours on Saturday, after accusing the company of failing to negotiate in good faith during two weeks of talks brokered by Fair Work Australia.
