The FWC has found the AMWU genuinely made special projects officer Dave Kelly redundant, finding it retrenched him because it "was no longer a good spend of union funds to pay" him, rather than any "union election-related skullduggery" or "capriciousness".
The MUA and its leaders have averted the threat of liability for alleged secondary boycotts against transport and logistics company Qube, after the union provided an undertaking this afternoon that it would withdraw that part of its planned protected action against stevedore DP World.
The NTEU is calling for urgent change, after its latest survey found that "s-xual harassment, s-xism, and gender-based bias in tertiary education workplaces continues to be largely ignored and as a result remains firmly entrenched in our universities".
Resources employer group AREEA says the Loopholes Bill's labour hire provisions lack a proper exemption for specialist contractors and will kill off the use of on-hire workers, despite Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke's assurances that the drafting would take "very full account" of its concerns.
The Federal Court will this afternoon hear an urgent bid by transport and logistics company Qube to halt an alleged unlawful secondary boycott by the MUA as part of its planned protected action from Sunday at stevedore DP World's four container terminals.
The FWC has ordered a Gold Coast cabaret club to compensate two workers it sacked after intercepting private social media discussions about a colleague's pay, finding it treated them like they had broken into its equivalent of the Watergate complex to expose key secrets over WikiLeaks.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has failed to convince the Federal Court to give preference to a SDA rest breaks case against McDonald's by staying an earlier-filed class action backed by unregistered union RAFFWU.
BHP's massive iron ore mining operations in Western Australia's north-west might be facing strikes and bans in coming weeks, if train drivers authorise industrial action in a forthcoming electronic ballot.
Welcome ceremonies for two new FWC members have heard how one had her play about striking migrant workers shortlisted and performed in an arts competition, while the other cultivated his passion for IR while spending almost a decade as a casual at Woolworths.
