Six prison officers threatened with disciplinary action after criticising senior managers in comments posted on Facebook have successfully challenged the validity of an internal investigation into their conduct.
The Federal Court has rejected a union delegate's claim that his employer disciplined him because of his union role and activity, in what is believed to be the first substantive ruling under the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions.
The ANF is seeking orders to protect about 5000 aged care nurses in NSW and Queensland from cuts to their earnings under modern awards, in what looms as the first major test of the Fair Work Act's take-home pay provisions.
Former High Court judge Mary Gaudron has called for the establishment of a unified labour or employment court to deal all with employer-employee matters, saying it was now constitutionally possible to do so with minimum cooperation from the States.
McDonald's Australia will on Monday appear before Fair Work Australia in a last-ditch bid to convince it to approve its first national enterprise agreement, which covers about 80,000 workers.
The CFMEU (mining and energy division) in an appeal against an earlier good faith bargaining decision has today told a FWA full bench that Xstrata subsidiary Tahmoor Coal's conduct while communicating directly with workers the union was representing breached the requirements of the new bargaining regime.
Industrial action could be averted at two of Coal and Allied's largest coal mining operations in the Hunter Valley if workers tomorrow endorse offers delivering 13.5% over three years but with few guarantees on job security.
The Australian Industry Group has sought to intervene in Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard's appeal against a FWA ruling that limits the scope for individual flexibility arrangements to vary the terms of agreements.
State governments have called on Fair Work Australia to make separate minimum wage rulings for employees on higher state award rates to ensure they don't have to endure a pay freeze as a result of moving to the national system.
