Fair Work Australia has upheld the right of Alinta Energy power plant employees to take protected industrial action that might shut down operations, in a decision that might have implications for electricity generators across Australia.
Former Prime Minister John Howard has today called for the Coalition to develop an IR policy that includes statutory individual contracts with a no disadvantage test and to protect small businesses from unfair dismissal laws.
The AMMA has sought leave to intervene to support the AiG's appeal against Fair Work Australia's approval of the ADJ Contracting deal - the first of the pattern agreements for the Victorian electrical contracting sector to be lodged.
The Federal Magistrates Court has criticised the FWO for its heavy-handed approach to a small business owner accused by a former employee of not providing payslips for six weeks.
In what his opponents say is a Dean Mighell push to take over the union but his faction maintains is about representing members' interests first, the ETU is going into an election effectively split in two.
FWA requires maximum seven days notice for AMWU action against fire brigade; Court reverses ruling on union entry breaches; Victorian building workers vote up deal; and Joe McDonald arrested again.
A tribunal has ordered an employer to pay a British scaffolding supervisor on a 457 visa $16,000 for unlawful discrimination over a workplace injury and failing to provide a warning of plans to make him redundant.
Blake Dawson partner Steven Amendola has accused WA Premier Colin Barnett of misrepresenting his report on the State's IR system and says the inference from the Government's handling of the matter is that "they don't know what they're doing" on IR.
