Qantas check-in workers to vote on strike action; and CFMEU fined $41,000 for Children’s Hospital strike; and Dispute figures fall again after September increase.
The ACTU has vowed to oppose employer attempts to seek wage trade-offs in exchange for higher mandatory superannuation contributions; and last night recognised building worker Ark Tribe in its national union awards.
The question of whether unions can seek to take protected industrial action when an employer refuses to bargain is set to be considered by a Fair Work Australia full bench, when it hears a challenge to Commissioner Harrison's recent JJ Richards decision.
FWA has ruled a RTBU bid for a protected action ballot was premature, because it failed to respond to an employer request for feedback on the reasons members voted down a proposed agreement.
Qantas pilots preparing strike ballot bid; ACTU calls for action on apprentice wages; Bans to start at CSIRO - strikes could be next; and Workplace Express "what's on" page update
A former Queensland local government manager has won $368,000 in compensation after a tribunal found that four local councillors discriminated against and dismissed him because of his perceived relationship with their political opponents.
Employers will have to report annually on "tangible" gender-based pay results rather than "good intentions" to a reinvigorated workplace equal opportunity agency if they want to tender for federal government work, the Minister for the Status of Women, Kate Ellis, announced today.
The Federal Court has fined the CFMEU (construction and general division) and nine of its officials a total of $170,000 over coercive behaviour and unlawful industrial action on Victorian roads projects, while in WA the union and its state assistant secretary, Joe McDonald, have lost an appeal against an earlier penalties ruling.
The federal government has says it is uncertain about the potential financial implications of the SACS equal remuneration case, while the ACTU has urged Fair Work Australia not to take into account the cost to employers of any increase in deciding whether to grant the union claim.
