Scientologists disregarded Australian workplace laws; Take home pay decision reserved; Food production and maintenance workers seek separate agreements; and Opposition says HSU still "chained" to Labor.
Fair Work Australia has today ordered the TWU and 23 employees in aircraft "pushback" and waste handling at Qantas terminals in Sydney not to proceed with the strike action planned for tomorrow, as the airline prepares for thousands of the union's members across the country to walk off the job for four hours.
Sector-wide Victorian public servant action ballot approved; Desal arbitration looming as company fights court action and seeks new IR advisor; AFL players may go to Fair Work Australia; and CFMEU to target lock-out employer's sponsorships.
Unions NSW to mount legal challenge to election spending curbs; New tripartite mining body; FWA advertises for members and general manager; and Reith, Lloyd and Sloane at Press Club.
The Federal Court has temporarily frozen a final warning issued by a Visy company to a health and safety representative who sidelined two defective forklifts, after finding he had a "strong prima facie case" that the company had taken the action because he had exercised a workplace right.
The joint federal/Victorian government-funded $5.3 billion regional rail link project is shaping to become an IR battleground, with unions jockeying for positions with shortlisted bidders and the Victorian Government announcing that it will send workplace inspectors onto the site.
Retailers will soon have the right to hire school students on 90-minute casual after-school shifts, after a Fair Work Australia full bench today rejected an SDA appeal.
BHP is facing further industrial action at its Bowen Basin coal mines plus a union-funded advertising campaign after declaring on the weekend that negotiations with site unions had reached an impasse and it would put a proposed new agreement directly to workers.
