The Coalition will go to the next election campaigning for an unfair dismissal threshold "substantially" lower than the Work Choices' level of 100 employees and a no-disadvantage test that can't be undercut by individual agreements, according to Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Senator Eric Abetz.
Unions have successfully opposed a CSIRO bid to have workers transferring from a previously outsourced deep space communications facility brought under its organisation-wide enterprise agreement, in Fair Work Australia's first decision in a contested transfer of business matter under the new laws.
The meatworkers' union has today asked a FWA appeal bench to quickly decide its bid for a scope order providing for it to bargain for a standalone agreement for Woolworths' meat departments, before the company puts to an employee ballot a single national agreement covering all supermarket employees.
Fair Work Australia has ordered Deakin University to apologise to a former employee and pay her $30,000 over a workplace restructure and disciplinary action that breached its enterprise agreement.
Fair Work Australia has rejected the coal mining union's bid for a good faith bargaining order to stop Xstrata subsidiary Tahmoor Coal from putting a proposed enterprise agreement to an employee ballot.
Unions or employers can use emotive language or put the best possible spin on information when communicating with employees during bargaining without breaching good faith requirements, Fair Work Australia has found.
High Court refuses leave to appeal "mutual trust and confidence" case; CEPU condemns Australia Post injury management; and Federal Court fines CFMEU $45,000
The AWU has failed to secure a protected action ballot at Alcoa's Pinjarra alumina refinery in WA after Fair Work Australia found it was seeking non-permitted content. Meanwhile, about 1,000 employees at several of the company's other major sites in the State will hold a two-hour stop work meeting today.
A cross-union push to organise Australia's offshore oil and gas drilling rigs is gaining momentum, with the MUA-AWU partnership reporting that it has increased its membership and commenced bargaining with a major employer.
