Xstrata has denied CFMEU claims it plans to use "strike-breakers" to load coal trains at its Tahmoor mine in an effort to undermine work bans imposed by the union as part of its 15-month bargaining dispute with the company.
A Federal Court full court has slashed by more than half a $115,000 penalty against the CFMEU (construction and general division) and one of its officials, removing from the books one of the largest fines imposed on the union under the BCII Act.
The Fair Work Act's good faith bargaining obligations don't stop employers from seeking their employees' views on whether they should negotiate a new agreement, a senior Fair Work Australia member has found.
Telstra has failed in its bid to stop a strike by CEPU members after Fair Work Australia found the union had given adequate notice of the proposed nationwide campaign of indefinite stoppages.
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Just 13 months after entering State Parliament, former Unions NSW secretary John Robertson has been appointed IR Minister by new Premier Kristina Keneally.
Newly-appointed Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Eric Abetz says he is "pleased and delighted" with his role, and that it's a substantial vote of confidence by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in that he'll be going "head to head" with Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The ACTU, meanwhile, has described him as an "industrial relations zealot".
A Fair Work Australia full bench has begun a five-day hearing to settle a dispute over the number of agreements that should cover employees of Melbourne's fire service, in what looms as a test case on the Fair Work Act's scope provisions.
IR hard-liner Senator Eric Abetz is the new Shadow Workplace Relations Minister, with his predecessor Michael Keenan dumped from the front bench in the reshuffle announced this morning by new Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
