Fair Work Australia's President has declined to respond to Opposition questions during Senate Estimates hearings about whether he is performance-managing a tribunal member who had six rulings overturned on appeal.
ABC Commissioner Leigh Johns will ask the Commonwealth Ombudsman to include the s52 compulsory examination he has already conducted in its review of his use of the power, he told recent Senate Estimates hearings.
Big fine for director’s accessorial liability; CPSU seeks first strike ballot in APS campaign; and Closure of Qantas pilots' ballot extended to July 6.
Mining employers revive "fighting fund" concept; Public transport not an essential service: FWA; He's back: Hanke returns as HR Nicholls Society's PR director; Police prosecutors add support to police officer's industrial action; and Aged care redundancies lead to FWA dispute hearing.
Sydney Water and a supervisor must pay $5,000 in damages over a "weak and unfunny" racist joke that was told in the workplace in the presence of an Aboriginal worker, but the Federal Magistrates Court has refused to find that the incident was part of systemic discrimination at the utility.
New laws to fetter the NSW IRC's power to set state public sector wages are set to be passed by NSW Parliament, after the O'Farrell Government on the weekend gagged a marathon debate and forced its legislative changes through the Upper House.
BHP Coal strike ballot gets up, but talks continuing; FAAA seeking feedback from members about rejected Jetstar deal; and Patrick container terminal negotiations recommence June 21.
The ALP and Greens in NSW have managed to delay the passage of the State Government's bill that gives it unprecedented power over public sector pay and conditions but the legislation still looks set to pass after the Government agreed to exempt for now NSW police.
Fair Work Australia's decision today to lift minimum rates by 3.4% marks the first time in 20 years that a federal wage-fixing tribunal has awarded a percentage increase.
