Jury trials will determine whether the Fairfax and Murdoch news organisations defamed the CFMEU and its national secretary John Maitland, after the NSW Supreme Court found articles they published had the potential to be defamatory.
Australian employers' utilisation of online workplace training is set to skyrocket during the next year, a US training and development specialist told this week's AHRI annual convention.
Almost 4,000 employees at outsourced service provider Electronic Data Services have voted up a non-union agreement with no guaranteed pay rise, with all increases based on individual performance.
The AiG has recommended major IR changes to the car industry in its submission to the Productivity Commission – which is one of three federal bodies currently looking at workplace reform in the sector.
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A variation to the federal hospitality award approved yesterday by the federal IRC introduces a new skills-based classification structure for about 10,000 casino workers in the eastern states.
A furniture salesman ostensibly dismissed for failing to meet his sales targets has failed to establish he was sacked because of his union involvement.
In a decision worth $5-to-$6 a week for hundreds of thousands of building workers, a full bench of the IRC has upheld an earlier finding that an award allowance for fares and travel should be included in ordinary time earnings when calculating employer superannuation contributions.
Charges have been laid over an alleged union raid on Melbourne manufacturer Johnson Tiles in June last year, with AMWU Victorian state secretary Craig Johnston among those to face court over the incident.
