The Ai Group is seeking to influence the development of good faith bargaining case law by intervening in a CFMEU bid for good faith orders that is before Fair Work Australia.
Postal workers to vote on industrial action; NUW stoush not over yet; Court freezes most of massive harassment payout; and Digest available for construction IR bill.
Fair Work Australia has made its first majority support determination, for the Victorian employees of funeral services company Invocare, and ordered a majority support ballot of some 600 employees at power company TRUenergy.
DEEWR has re-launched the long-running national work and family awards as the National Work-Life Balance Awards and demoted its longstanding partners, the ACCI and BCA, to judges.
Union seeks financial data from Virgin Blue; Fair Work agreements start to flow; State branches seek stay of NUW restructure; Ark Tribe in court again; and Immigration a "competent authority" for unlawful termination
The NUW has won a good faith bargaining order to stop employees voting on an agreement their employer proposed after just two short negotiation sessions with the union.
Fair Work Australia has refused to approve a enterprise agreement under the Fair Work Act because the employer failed to meet the "mandatory prerequisite" of advising employees of their right to be represented by a bargaining agent.
A shift in focus from dispute resolution to prevention could help change the way IR is practiced in Australia and deliver a new wave of productivity growth, according to a new discussion paper commissioned by the Business Council of Australia.
