The HSU's Victorian No 1 branch should not be allowed to continue to operate because its officers are "incompetent", a member of 30 years has told the Federal Court, while the union's national executive tried to convince the court that the branch is no longer operating effectively, in its bid to place the branch into administration.
A tribunal has found for a second time in less than four weeks that a local government body unlawfully deducted relocation costs from an employee's pay packet.
CFMEU construction division leader Zach Smith has hit back at "bullshit" claims that a planned restructure to centralise campaigning, communications and training functions will undemocratically hand control to the national office and reduce members' influence.
A teenager who received no further work after she refused to sign an AWA more than 25 years ago has been appointed as the workplace relations minister for the Albanese Government's second term.
In the first full consideration of new powers to order digital platforms to reverse the deactivation of their workers, the FWC has thrown out a former Uber driver's application after clarifying that the minimum six-month qualification period needs to be both recent and largely continuous.
The FWC has granted the RTBU an intractable bargaining declaration that will require the tribunal to weigh into whether Qube wrongly interpreted a 2019 deal as providing all-in loaded rates, at the same time as the union is seeking to have a related multi-million dollar Federal Court underpayments claim continue as a worker-led class action.
FWC wage panel seeks guidance on Trump effects; Conference to consider workplace social media sanctions; and Questions about Setka's fitness for trial.
Burger chain Grill'd has failed to convince the FWC to approve its enterprise deal, after offering undertakings that would have left some workers $3.10 better off a week, up from 77 cents, while the SDA is seeking to terminate 15 of the company's agreements and is asking it to return to the bargaining table.
The FWC has ordered BHP to reinstate a mineworker sacked after punching a colleague who attacked him from the back seat of a twincab ute, finding he had a right to defend himself and the investigator should have kept an open mind when considering his explanation.
In a judgment raising the possibility that State workplace protections could extend to independent contractors under the Fair Work Act, Federal Court Chief Justice Debra Mortimer has today dismissed Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's bid to strike out a freelance pianist's adverse action claim that it discriminated against him by cancelling a performance after he accused Israel of committing war crimes.
