A badge-wearing campaign by dealers at Conrad Jupiters casino led to both a lockout and strike at the Gold Coast facility over the peak weekend trading period.
Key employer organisation the AiG has called on the Victorian Government to reconsider its plan to reintroduce a State-based industrial relations system.
BHP's 4,000-strong workforce at its Port Kembla steelworks in NSW are holding a stop-work meeting at the start of first shift this morning which could develop into a walk-off over the company's plans to outsource maintenance.
A senior member of the IRC has made a searing attack on the Office of the Employment Advocate, saying that its "propaganda" before the hearing of a right of entry case had been "prejudicial, tendentious and partisan".
Queensland's Beattie Labor Government is promising to strengthen employment protections for casuals and target workplace bullying and excessive working hours if re-elected on February 17.
New Federal Workplace Relations Minister, Tony Abbott, has criticised alternatives to the Government's employee entitlements support scheme (EESS) - despite the release this week of a report showing workers relying on the current arrangement have received less than one-third of what they've lost.
The ACTU has cited previously unpublished ABS material in its living wage submission which, it says, shows working households are suffering high levels of financial stress.
The AWU has lodged an appeal and sought a stay order against an IRC decision to terminate - for the second time - bargaining periods covering Caltex's Kurnell refinery in Sydney.
