A Fair Work Australia full bench will tomorrow in Melbourne hear the AiG's appeal against the tribunal's earlier approval of the ADJ Contracting deal - the first of the Victorian electrical contracting sector pattern agreements to be lodged.
The CPSU has decided against formally challenging the results of protected action ballots in Immigration and Customs, which failed to meet the 50% voter turnout thresholds.
The BCA has called on the Federal Government to curb the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions, introduce secret ballots for majority support determinations, explore making IFAs a condition of employment and allow employers to offset superannuation increases against minimum wage rises.
FWO warns HR managers to beware of sham contracting arrangements; Insider wins Telstra HR director role; TWU seeking protected action ballot at Qantas; Qantas pilots release text of protected announcements; Freehills urges employers to consider following in footsteps of Qantas; and MBA calls for calm response to illegal worker report.
The Victorian public sector union will lodge protected action ballots in 14 days unless there is a breakthrough in its negotiations with the State Government for a new raft of public sector agreements.
A Fair Work Australia full bench majority has upheld a ruling that it can constitute industrial action when employees communicate to clients and the media about their industrial dispute and wear campaign clothing, while the minority has dismissed the proposed action as mere "employee disobedience".
A ruling by a Federal Court full bench this morning appears to have opened the way for unions to begin bargaining for Fair Work agreements for thousands of iron ore mineworkers employed by Rio Tinto in Western Australia, and might have similar implications for BHP Billiton's iron ore operations.
Fair Work Australia doesn't have the power to order unions not to organise unprotected industrial action unless they are actually doing so, a full bench of the tribunal has ruled.
An airline that is majority-owned by the Fijian Government has won orders against industrial action threatened by the TWU over what it claims is the "smashing" of workplace rights in the country.
