Spotlight, the retailer that under Work Choices offered the now infamous two-cents-extra AWAs, has reached agreement with the SDA on the first collective deal to cover its 6,000-plus retail employees.
An appeal panel of a NSW tribunal has canvassed the extent to which religious bodies are exempt from discrimination law, in a case involving a homosexual couple's claim against the Wesley Mission.
The FSU and Zurich Financial Services Australia have reached an in-principle four-year agreement that guarantees employees earning below a salary benchmark annual increases of 3% in its first two years - with more available if business targets are met - rising to 4% annually in its final half.
Fair Work Australia will on Monday hear a fresh MUA application for a protected action ballot at Total Marine Services, in the wake of Friday's full bench ruling that halted voting.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has clarified the right of employers to be heard on union bids for protected action ballots – and their standing to seek to appeal them – in its reasons for overturning an order for a ballot at Australia Post.
A union could fail to bargain in good faith, but nevertheless be genuinely trying to reach agreement, a Senior Fair Work Australia member has found in acceding to a TWU bid for a secret ballot to authorise industrial action.
A global finance brokerage has won a $500,000 payout from a former employee, after the NSW Supreme Court granted its claim for liquidated damages despite a previous finding that the employment relationship had come to an end.
Fair Work Australia has refused permission for Freehills to appear at a hearing for an employer client to defend a Fair Work unfair dismissal claim, in a ruling that confirms the new Act's more restrictive approach to legal representation.
In a decision that effectively raises the threshold for securing protected ballot orders, a full bench of Fair Work Australia has today found that the MUA had taken only "preparatory" steps in its negotiations with offshore oil and gas logistics company Total Marine Service - which were not enough to show it had genuinely tried to reach an agreement.
Poultry workers face lockout; ABCC offer to train CFMEU undermines penalty argument: Federal Court; and Ritter ends tenure at WAIRC as Buswell flags changes
