The NSW IRC has found the State's Police Service was too harsh when it demoted a constable for playing another police officer a recording of a call from a suspected criminal to a 0055 sex line.
Nurses working in the ailing Commonwealth-funded private and not-for-profit aged-care sector will take unprecedented industrial action to pressure employers to boost staffing levels.
The Federal Court has used the WR Act's validation provisions to retrospectively authorise decisions made by a union, even though it hadn't validly filled positions on its management committee.
Thousands of employees at Holden and Mitsubishi's manufacturing operations have voted up enterprise agreements that provide annual pay increases exceeding 5%, while Toyota and the vehicle union have started agreement negotiations.
The Finance Sector has called a halt to its campaign of rolling stoppages against the ANZ, NAB and Westpac, but is now threatening a national strike against all three in December.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward has told a union audience that expanding paid maternity leave is at the top of her agenda and that she will bring forward the release of an interim report on the issue.
A dismissed teacher has failed in a bid for reinstatement, after the Queensland IRC took into account the extensive media coverage her unfair dismissal case attracted.
CFMEU construction division NSW branch secretary Andrew Ferguson has retained his federal entry permit, after an IRC full bench today overturned a decision to revoke it.
