The CFMMEU is calling on Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill iron ore mine to "release" its fly-in, fly-out employees from continuing confinement to their residential village outside working hours long after the end of COVID-19 restrictions.
The FWC has upheld an employer's entitlement to sack a depressed worker who could no longer perform his job after 33 years, but held it fluffed its lines by failing to extend him the "courtesy" of a chance to respond to its decision.
A tribunal has upheld the suspension without pay of a public sector employee accused of s-xually assaulting three women while moonlighting as a rideshare driver.
The FWC has observed that a Victorian worker's application to work full-time from home under flexible work arrangements was largely motivated by her opposition to COVID-19 vaccinations, in upholding her employer's refusal of her request.
New university research says that climate change is an IR matter and that too little attention has been paid to employer and industry associations, which have worked "tirelessly and effectively" to "stymie and even reverse" climate change policies in Australia.
A lawyer overseeing a merger of the TWU and the Virgin pilots' union says a FWC finding that they are not amalgamating opens the way to a faster and more cost-effective process and might have implications for other unions with similar eligibility criteria.
A CFMMEU organiser who failed to undertake "targeted" training on his rights and obligations until more than two years after the ABCC accused him of multiple breaches has had his entry permit suspended for three months.
A paid bargaining agent has failed to force Coles to give him a seat at the bargaining table with the UWU, after the FWC rejected his bid for a bargaining order, finding the Act doesn't require a single bargaining unit and that the supermarket giant provided "clear and sensible" reasons for separate negotiations.
A score of former union officials and activists moved into Parliament 15 years ago when the Rudd Labor Government took power at the "Work Choices" poll, but this time is different, with only a few winning, or a chance of winning, seats in Saturday's election victory for the party.
Employer bodies have expressed enthusiasm for working with the Albanese Labor Government to lift real wages and reform the bargaining system and are acknowledging its "mandate" to ditch the ABCC, while the TWU is seeking the reinstatement of a body to set enforceable employment standards in the road transport industry.
