CFMEU wins "breakthrough" decision on oral drug testing; Unions seek to block higher pension age; and Options paper to canvass changes to employee share scheme taxation.
The AIRC's award modernisation full bench says there is no "general need" for modern awards to regulate probationary, fixed term or seasonal employment, in its statement accompanying the third round of draft modern awards.
Australia's state governments are adopting disparate positions on whether and in what form they will sign up to federal Labor's plan for a unitary IR system for the private sector, as the deadline for doing so draws nearer.
Commission makes a further 50 draft modern awards; New orders in pioneering independent contractors' case; Gregory appointed ACCI workplace policy director; and Correction: Virgin Blue Pilots' second registration bid
Fair Work Australia is central to Labor's bid to deliver a simpler, more efficient IR framework, but could face challenges in meeting the ambitious objectives the Government has set for it, according to University of Adelaide professor of law, Andrew Stewart.
A council street sweeper who was sacked and reported to NSW’s anti-corruption commission for emptying a fast food outlet's bins in exchange for a cup of coffee should be reinstated, the State’s IRC has ruled.
The narrow scope of the Fair Work Act's "matters pertaining" requirement will restrict the inclusion of environmental sustainability clauses in enterprise bargaining agreements, according to a legal academic.
Employees in Goodman Fielder's fresh baking operations in NSW will be entitled to 12 weeks maternity leave or one week of paternity leave but will have a five month wait for their first pay rise under a two-year enterprise agreement the company has reached with the LHMU.
