The FWC has opened the way for a casual newspaper producer to pursue Guardian Australia for unfair dismissal, finding the terms of his contract did not defeat the systematic basis of his engagements and nor did the fact he declined many shifts.
The Wood inquiry into the CFMEU's activities in Queensland will put construction division administrator Mark Irving KC on the stand in a hearing this week.
The FWC has backed an ASX-listed early education provider's decision to reject a worker's request for flexible arrangements to enable her to keep picking up her children from school each day, instead of moving to a less-accommodating rotating roster.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government is removing the former Labor administration's best practice pay and conditions procurement guidelines for new State-funded construction projects, following the release of a State productivity commission report, while the Wood inquiry has appointed new counsel assisting, ahead of its first substantive hearings.
The FWC has found employers cannot rely on a standard enterprise agreement renegotiation clause to avoid being roped into a multi-employer deal that might cover more than 9,000 workers, in a decision resolving the final procedural hurdle to the ASU's bid for a bulk bargaining authorisation for eight Melbourne councils.
The FWC's Collaborative Approaches interest-based bargaining program is a top priority but its capacity to provide the free service is under threat, tribunal President Adam Hatcher has told a NSW IR Society event.
The Crisafulli Government is playing hardball with its public school teachers and pressing for full arbitration of its bargaining claim - which could take two years to finalise - rather than focusing on matters on which they have not reached consent, according to the Queensland Teachers' Union.
The NSW Industrial Court has fined the state's nurses and midwives union $130,000 for its "flagrant and unapologetic" flouting of multiple anti-strike orders during pay negotiations with the Minns Government that have since morphed into a major gender undervaluation case.
Health union VAHPA is holding a special general meeting to discuss its proposed merger with HACSU, according to a rank and file group concerned about an alleged failure to consult members.
