CFMEU national president Tony Maher has called on manufacturers to stand up to mining companies and has criticised employers for promoting cuts to employee entitlements as a solution to the "big problem" that, "left to its own devices, the mining boom will kill manufacturing".
The Federal Government will reintroduce its construction industry legislation during the current parliamentary session, Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has announced.
FWA rebuffs bid for payment of stood-down workers; Unions reject Qantas claim of "coordinated" industrial action; and No baggage fees as Jetstar workers take action.
The FWO is shifting its underpayment case load to focus more on matters involving deliberate "wage theft", according to Ombudsman Nick Wilson, who says the organisation has also begun making more information available about its investigations and prosecutions.
Toyota employees reject company sponsored agreement ballot; Construction unions have nothing to fear from new IR guidelines, says VTHC; and FWA wage panel to prepare report on best way to measure needs of low-paid.
The Victorian construction industry's drug and alcohol policy doesn't provide for compulsory drug and alcohol testing, but a Fair Work Australia full bench has found this is no barrier to a mandatory regime.
Fair Work Australia's President, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, has called for an independent or bipartisan inquiry to consider the evidence on Australia's productivity performance and make recommendations for change.
Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has defended the Fair Work Act against persistent calls for change from the Opposition and employer groups, vowing that the Gillard Government will not "resile from the Act’s essential elements".
Plans to make 160 trades workers redundant at the $3.5 billion Victorian desalination plant construction project, have been put on hold, while FWA has ordered costs against a security firm worker who sparked a strike and accusations of spying at the project.
MUA workers who stopped a vessel on the North West shelf Gorgon project from sailing because of concerns about the status of some crew members' immigration visas might have considered there were good social or community reasons for doing so, but it was still unprotected industrial action, Fair Work Australia has held.
