The CFMEU has elected forestry and furnishing products division secretary Michael O'Connor to run its national office, while the CEPU's communication division has appointed Queenslander Cameron Thiele as its national secretary.
Unions can legitimately seek ballots in which employees are asked a single question authorising multiple forms of protected action, a senior FWA member has found, in a ruling at odds with the tribunal's recent decisions on the question.
FWA's telephone conciliation of unfair dismissal claims might not be popular with all practitioners, but its 81% settlement rate for 2009-10 is higher than ever before, according to the tribunal's annual report.
Local government employees in NSW could soon have the option of taking 18 weeks parental leave on full pay by combining their entitlements under the federal paid parental leave scheme and the new award proposed for the sector.
Dispute notifications increased fivefold in the first year of FWA’s operation, while protected action ballot applications increased almost threefold, the new institution’s annual report reveals.
The MBA says updated research released today that links labour productivity growth in the construction sector with the inception of the ABCC and its predecessor bolsters the case for retaining the “strong and effective cop on the beat”.
The CPSU (PSU) has written to Tax Commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo asking him to reverse a warning he has issued to a union delegate for emailing his colleagues about bargaining, saying it is breaches both federal government policy and the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions.
Mining union members employed in Rio Tinto's Pilbara rail division could be prevented from taking protected industrial action until late 2013, after Fair Work Australia yesterday declined to make a ballot order while a five-year non-union deal covering other workers in the division continues to operate.
