The Federal Court has restrained Victoria Police from interviewing Police Association secretary Paul Mullett over bullying allegations, in a ruling that clarifies the Work Choices provisions that restrict injunctions in freedom of association cases.
Labour mobility should be freed up, both within Australia and within the Asia-Pacific, by 2020, according to the initial report of the Australia 2020 Summit.
Court rebuffs Woodside bid to disclose identity of email senders; PC to model Bracks options for post-2010 car industry assistance; and ACTU seeks to boost super contributions at 2020 Summit.
The Federal Court today cancelled injunctions implicating the AMWU in an unprotected strike by around 800 employees at Hawker de Havilland's Fishermens Bend plant in Melbourne, after new evidence that the union was not involved in organising the dispute.
Qantas wins orders to halt action by store workers; Ex-Ansett employees likely to get 94% of entitlements: KordaMentha;Hearings begin next month for parental leave inquiry; Burrow and Ridout to be members of Skills Australia; and PM's proposed Parent and Child Centres would incorporate child care.
The Federal Court will tomorrow hear a bid by the AMWU to stay and overturn the interim injunction issued by Justice Shane Marshall against striking Boeing workers last week, while the company has confirmed it is preparing to pursue contempt charges against individual employees and the union.
The CFMEU has been fined $4,000 for pressuring an employer for strike pay over a safety dispute at a Melbourne building site in 2004, in a Federal Court decision that says such behaviour is "a thing of the past".
Employers can make false statements about workplace agreements provided they don't influence employees' votes, according to a full bench of the Federal Court.
Telstra unions to test AWA shift in new deal; Employer/union group lobbies for more skills investment; NZ outstripping Australia on key wages benchmark; CFMEU mining division forms new climate change alliance; Employers turning young workers off when they block MySpace, Facebook: Survey; and Consolidated version of Workplace Relations Act available on Austlii - incorporates Labor amendments.
Proposals by Attorney-General Robert McClelland that would give employers more power to monitor employees' email and internet activity have not yet been provided in detail to key stakeholders.
