Labor's good faith bargaining regime gives employers the opportunity to take a proactive role in negotiations, but its requirements could also make it harder for employers to hold their position during bargaining, while the new majority rules laws could affect the way they structure their workforces, according to law firm DLA Phillips Fox.
The CFMEU's WA construction branch has told the state IRC's election inquiry that despite deficiencies in the union's administration that excluded members from seeking election or voting, it would be against the public interest to order a fresh ballot for positions in the state-registered union.
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by the NSW IRC full bench to insert "protective provisions" into a sacked accountant's employment contract, in a ruling that confirms the broad scope of the full bench's jurisdiction under the State IR Act.
There is no economic case for IR legislation that specifically targets the construction industry, according to Griffith University's Professor David Peetz, who has co-authored a paper that finds fundamental flaws with two Econtech reports that have been widely used to support an ongoing role for the ABCC.
A Tasmanian hotel owner who was last year fined $4,950 for AWA duress was yesterday penalised again over pressure put on another young worker at a different hotel to sign an individual contract.
CEPU and CPSU members employed at Telstra today took the first strike action in what is likely to be a hard fought industrial campaign at the national telco.
A lawyer sacked by the Aboriginal Legal Service in WA has won the right to pursue his unfair dismissal claim, after the state's Industrial Appeal Court ruled the organisation is not a constitutional corporation.
A Brisbane bus driver who left out a note that was inadvertently read by an indigenous colleague in which she stated she didn't want to "pick up all those spear chuckers with prams" has failed to convince a full bench of the AIRC to overturn an earlier finding that her sacking was fair.
A Labor-dominated Senate committee has called for changes that would make it easier for workers to establish they have been discriminated against under the Sex Discrimination Act.
The CFMEU construction division WA branch is the only major union in WA opposing a 10-point agreement designed to avoid demarcation disputes between the state's unions.
