Australia's four car manufacturers will today seek permission to sue the AMWU, ETU and BHP workers over the picket line at the company's Western Port plant in Victoria that is blocking steel supplies.
In a crucial long-running case on family responsibilities and indirect discrimination, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found that a government department was unreasonable in not allowing a woman with a sick child to work from home two days a week.
Queensland nurses have walked off the job in a series of rolling stoppages at more than 20 public hospitals this week in a bid to win better pay and conditions in enterprise bargaining negotiations with the State Government.
ANZ Bank has lost an appeal against a decision that it unfairly dismissed a long-serving worker for serious misconduct, after an IRC full bench upheld a ruling that it had failed to adhere to its own disciplinary policies.
The Perth IR consultancy that is currently the only agency involved in the Office of the Employment Advocate's AWA fast-tracking pilot has lodged its first individual contracts for approval under the scheme.
The federal Opposition says WR Minister Tony Abbott should seek legal advice about whether Employment Advocate Jonathan Hamberger is breaching his statutory duty with a new AWA fast-tracking program.
The Federal Court has ordered the coal mining union to pay a $120,000 penalty for contempt of court - a big reduction on a $200,000 penalty overturned by a full bench. The court has also ordered the union to pay indemnity costs, which are likely to exceed $200,000.
Ron McCallum, the Blake Dawson Waldron Professor of Industrial Law at Sydney University and a leading figure in recent IR law reform in the eastern states, has been promoted to Dean of the university191s Law Faculty.
In a further step toward unions' objectives of regulating and organising the call centre industry, the IRC has recognised that the NUW's commercial traveller coverage extends to call centre workers, and the ASU has won a dispute finding against pay TV operators.
