As the Senate prepares to debate Labor's ABCC-axing building industry IR legislation, the construction cop's head, John Lloyd, has warned that introducing a weak regulator will lead to unlawful conduct spreading through the industry and affecting other parts of the economy like a "slow-moving cancer".
Fair Work Australia has today granted the MUA's application for a second protected action ballot of its members at Total Marine Services, after a full bench overturned the first ballot order because the union wasn't genuinely trying to reach an agreement.
The Federal Magistrates Court has granted a lawyer partial leave to appear in a small claims matter and rejected an employee's unlawful termination claim in its first published Fair Work Act decisions.
The AMWU and AWU, which earlier this year put aside traditional hostilities to form a manufacturing alliance, will co-host a conference in Canberra on Wednesday where they will call on business and government to work with unions to ensure the growth of the manufacturing sector following the global financial crisis.
Workplace Relations Minister Gillard has made her first declarations under the Fair Work Act to allow multiple employers to bargain for a single enterprise agreement.
Minimum wage panel appointments at "advanced" stage, some Queensland IRC members to go federal; Rebel NUW members could have duty to union, says court; Employee fails in bargaining order bid; Coalition could block extension of Fair Work Act to foreign-owned ships; and Gillard commits to completing green skills review by March.
Some 69% of Fair Work agreements contain the model individual flexibility term and a further 10.5% contain a more flexible provision, DEEWR’s John Kovacic told a Senate Estimates hearing this evening.
A Federal Court full court has overturned a single judge's finding that an agreement clause requiring an employer to pay income protection insurance for its employees was not a matter pertaining to the employment relationship.
