A Fair Work Australia full bench has rejected retail employers' push for shorter minimum hours for casual employees under the industry's modern award and heavily criticised the "weak" evidence they presented, in a ruling hailed by the SDA.
New Greens IR spokesperson Adam Bandt says the party remains deeply concerned about aspects of the Fair Work legislation, including its curbs on industry-level bargaining and taking industrial action for social and environmental reasons.
The company established to roll out the federal government's National Broadband Network has made its first enterprise agreement, a four-year, 4% per annum greenfields deal negotiated with the CEPU.
An IT company has failed to restrain a key employee from working for another company in a similar field, after the NSW Supreme Court found it wasn’t a direct competitor.
FWA rejects five part ballot question; Casino workers consider Spring Carnival strike; FWA extends 30-day action period; $2.5m in FWO grants to employer organisations; and World Day for Decent Work
ANZ pays childcare allowance for new parents returning to work; Plan now for transition to paid parental leave regime, says AMMA; and All-male boards increase from 51% to 54%, says EOWA-commissioned study.
The ACTU will work with non-Labor parties and independents to advance the interests of union members, according to ACTU president Ged Kearney, who today also acknowledged that aspects of the Greens' IR policy were superior to Labor's.
A former employee of a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary has been granted permission by a Federal Court full bench to expand the sexual harassment claim she lodged in 2008 to include allegations of sexual assault and that the bank ran a "smear campaign" against her that amounted to "injurious falsehood".
Demarcation gap scuttles MUA organiser's majority support bid; ASU national executive opposing Queensland merger; AWU fined for unlawful strikes; and FWA confirms research agenda
Unions should adapt their organising strategies to focus on the mounting risks employees face in their home, work and financial lives in the post-GFC world, according to new research for the ACTU.
