Cuts to working hours in Australia during the global financial crisis may have prevented more widespread job losses but they have also lead to growing discontent among workers, according to the OECD.
A court has ordered the director of a printing company to pay $33,000 in compensation and penalties to a production manager who he dismissed for being absent because of a workplace injury.
Fair Work Australia has rejected a bid by an oil and gas industry labour and logistics provider for good faith orders to force the MUA to provide further written details of its bargaining claim.
Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has today introduced a bill to ensure that federal public sector long service legislation continues to cover Telstra's workforce.
The AMWU and Campbell's Australia are moving towards agreement on a "collective flexibility clause" that could help resolve the dispute that has left workers locked out of the company's Shepparton plant this week.
A publisher has won an injunction to stop a former editor and marketing manager of one of its magazines from using a contact list of its clients in her new role with a rival publication.
Employees on 457 visas will pay their own health insurance costs under changes to the temporary work scheme that took effect yesterday, while the new requirement to pay market rates won't apply until next year to employers of existing 457 visa holders.
AMWU members have voted to seek a protected action ballot at Ford Australia, after failing to win agreement on a pay rise despite months of negotiations that the union readily concedes have been conducted in good faith.
A Fair Work Australia full bench could soon rule on the operation of the new Act's scope order provisions, after the ACTU today backed a bid by the UFUA and the Melbourne Fire Board for authoritative guidance on the statute's requirement to fairly choose the workers to be covered by an agreement. Meanwhile, another employer is seeking a scope order to ensure a single agreement covers its workforce.
Nationwide university strike tomorrow; Inquiry questions Treasury officials on super threshold and exclusion of women; Hockey stands shoulder-to-shoulder with CFMEU; Court rejects challenge to CFMEU election; Prisoner not an employee: appeal court; and Change to Fair Work Australia Rules
