A tribunal has rejected a former bank employee's claim that WorkSafe Victoria discriminated against her when it decided against prosecuting her former employer for alleged bullying.
A Federal Court judge has ordered Ballarat Health Services to pay 24 mental health nurses more than $100,000 in unpaid allowances in what a HSU claims is a test case ruling that might mean the Victorian Government is liable for $1.5m in backpay for hundreds of their colleagues across the state.
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A FWA full bench majority has reversed a ruling that would have required a resources company to recognise MUA official Will Tracey as a bargaining representative.
The Australian Nursing Federation has sought Fair Work Australia's assistance in its negotiations with the Victorian Government, after a leaked Cabinet document revealed it had adopted a strategy of delaying negotiations and planning for an arbitrated resolution once nurses had inevitably taken industrial action, while FWA has ruled that the union must provide seven days' notice of strikes.
The CFMEU has called for the federal government to require mining companies proposing non-residential workforces to establish that they have no alternative, while it is also seeking a legislated right for unions to enter company-owned residential areas, in its submission to a parliamentary inquiry.
CPSU national secretary Nadine Flood is the only member of the union's seven-person executive who is facing a challenge in a ballot for new three-year terms.
Qantas didn't inform the Federal Government that a lockout was one of the options it was considering because "everybody" knew that was available to it under the Fair Work Act, chief executive Alan Joyce told a parliamentary inquiry this morning.
In its first full year of operation, Fair Work Australia received fewer applications overall than the previous year, but dismissal-related applications increased by 15%, according to the organisation’s annual report.
