The first union collective agreement in two decades in Rio Tinto's WA iron ore operations has won overwhelming support in a ballot that closed yesterday.
Fair Work Australia has upheld an order for a recruitment company to compensate a labour hire worker it dismissed for defacing a host employer's workplace with a swastika.
Workplace Relations Minister Senator Chris Evans has been asked to plug a gap in the Fair Work Regulations exposed in a recent ruling that union officials, whether lawyers or not, can't represent workers in small claims proceedings in the Federal Magistrates Court.
A Queensland IRC full bench, in arbitrating a pay dispute for the State's police force, has criticised "one size fits all" public sector wage offers, particularly if they include police.
V Australia pilots are set to move off common law contracts and onto a new Fair Work agreement negotiated with flight crew unions that delivers immediate pay rises of 21% for captains and 18% for first officers, plus further increases during the life of the three-year deal.
After a long saga, Queensland's IRC has approved a new name for the union that has emerged from the amalgamation of the Queensland Public Sector Union and the ASU's state clerical branch.
The NSW IRC has awarded 80,000 NSW public sector employees an interim 2.5% pay rise, backdated to July 1, after it became clear there would be a significant delay in ruling on the Public Service Association's challenge to new laws that cap wage increases.
A small chain of family-owned barber shops breached the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions when it hired an employee with a back injury on below-award rates, the Federal Magistrates Court has found. But it held that the breaches were at the lower end of the scale and substantially reduced the penalties agreed by the parties.
