A union member acting as a maintenance contractor's health and safety representative has won interim reinstatement while the Federal Court weighs claims that the company sacked him for raising complaints about everything from silica dust exposure to welding fumes and fatigue management.
The FWC has refused to confine same-job, same-pay orders at a BHP coal mine to haul truck drivers, because the site's industrial instruments do not use the term and on-hire employees perform various other roles.
An ASIC review of super funds that hold almost 40% of funds under management has found none of them set deadlines or timelines for handling of death benefit claims and that the worst performers completed only 8% of applications within 90 days.
Ahead of the May 3 election, the ETU has today launched anti-nuclear-power television, radio and social media commercials that target 12 largely marginal seats, including that of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of an employee who worked outside the scope of her role - potentially exposing her employer to liability - despite "defects" in the employer's processes.
A leading IR academic says the Liberal Party might for the first time since 2013 present "something that looks like an IR platform" in the lead-up to the May 3 federal election, while he expects Labor to largely focus on what it has already accomplished.
RAFFWU has asked a full Federal Court today to void the Woolworths "rotten SDA sellout deal" that it claimed stripped workers' rights, froze wages and cut conditions.
Minns Government legislation to boost protections for NSW gig workers and owner drivers in the road transport sector has passed both houses of State Parliament.
As Australia officially starts counting down to the May 3 federal election, Labor has added the abolition of non-compete clauses to its fledgling list of IR policies, the Coalition has upped to 41,000 the number of public servants' jobs it will ditch if it wins, and the Greens will push for a four-day work week and 12 days reproductive leave.
The FWC has found employer unfairly dismissed a worker when it cut his shifts after he took up work at a competing branch of the same franchise, because it wanted workers committed to the "awesomeness" of the business.
