The Federal Court has refused Alcoa's application for an interim injunction to prevent the AWU continuing with its bargaining tactic of notifying work stoppages at a WA refinery without specifying a start or end time, which in effect forced the company to take worst-case-scenario defensive action.
Fair Work Australia has reinstated a tram conductor who was dismissed for assaulting a passenger who repeatedly ignored requests to stop preventing the vehicle's doors from closing.
Fair Dismissal Code checklist of "dubious value", says FWA; Different forms of action can be taken together, says FWA; Bus unions have to give five day's notice; Mining companies should pay rent tax, says CFMEU; and CPI up by 0.9% in quarter, 2.9% annually
The Government's principal advisors will receive up to $232,518 a year plus an allowance and a car under a new two-year agreement for parliamentary staff that brings the senior employees who were on AWAs during the Howard years back into the collective fold and delivers an across-the-board 3% annual pay increase.
Victorian building union chief Bill Oliver has called on construction workers to vote Green in the upper house in this year's federal election to send a message to Labor over the retention of the ABCC.
Virgin Blue has reached agreement with the ASU and TWU on a new pay deal that will deliver 1400-odd ground crew wage increases of 3% a year and almost double their parental leave entitlement.
FWA sets equal pay timetable; WA gets new IR minister as Buswell axed; FWA starts winding down old awards; Junior rates for trolley collectors and; McDonald's considers appeal
Fair Work Australia has rejected McDonald's Australia's enterprise agreement, finding it was deficient and failed to meet pre-approval requirements and the no disadvantage test. FWA has also referred to the Fair Work Ombudsman apparent underpayments to employees by the corporation and its franchisees.
