Union officials can lawfully refuse to provide details of the safety breaches they are relying on to enter worksites, the Federal Court has confirmed, in a ruling that also clarifies what it means to "hinder or obstruct" persons while onsite.
Bargaining order aimed at "unilateral" withdrawal by employer; FWA orders halt to "go slow" on the docks; Qantas international pilots and licenced engineers seeking job security; and Additional role for MUA leader.
An employer discriminated against an employee it "badgered" to return to work immediately after she suffered a "near death experience" in Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires, a tribunal has found.
National firefighters leader alleging defamation by NSW secretary; Coalition IR statement in next few days; Labor offers cash to apprentices; Crumlin elected ITF president; and Abbott smuggles two Work Choices budgies
Former AIRC senior deputy president Paul Munro has made a scathing attack on the Opposition's "extraordinary" insistence that FWA head Justice Geoffrey Giudice appear before Senate Estimates, and claimed that Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Senator Eric Abetz has not been allowed out of Tasmania during the election campaign.
The AiG has become the first major employer group to oppose an equal pay order for the social and community services sector, while unions today proposed a detailed timetable in the case to accommodate the federal government's caretaker status.
The Coalition's changes to IR laws during its 11 years in office from 1996 "undoubtedly" contributed to a shift in the balance of power away from workers and their institutions and towards employers, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of the academic literature on the Howard years.
