The IRC has ordered a company to reinstate a seasonal worker dismissed in a downsizing exercise, after it found flaws in the test used to select workers for redundancy.
An unsuccessful candidate for a position as a prison officer has been awarded $40,000 after a NSW Tribunal found that he had been unlawfully refused the job because of his disability.
Disputes over replacing Australian crews on coastal shipping routes with cheaper foreign labour are hotting up again, with maritime unions seeking IRC orders this week against ANL and CSL Australia using secondary boycotts laws against unions.
Thousands of rail workers at Freightcorp and National Rail are campaigning to have their separate employment arrangements rolled into a single agreement, in continuing negotiations between rail unions and the Pacific National group.
In an important decision, the NSW Court of Appeal has rejected arguments that an employer has a duty of care to conduct disciplinary proceedings in a way that avoids causing psychiatric harm to an employee.
In an important ruling that might be appealed to the High Court, an IRC full bench has closed the door on new owners of existing businesses using greenfields agreements.
Queensland public hospital nurses returned to work today after the IRC terminated the QNU's bargaining period with Queensland Health and moved to have the dispute arbitrated.
Protection of entitlements and, for some sectors, shorter working hours will be key claims in the AMWU's next manufacturing bargaining round, in which the union will also seek a 6% annual pay rise over three years.
