Voters will decide on May 18 whether to back a Shorten Labor Government that will introduce a "living wage" for the lowest-paid, abolish the ABCC and ROC and is likely to permit limited industry bargaining, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called a federal election this morning.
Unions will follow today's Change the Government, Change the Rules rallies with doorknocks in Coalition-held marginal seats this weekend, as campaigning cranks up ahead of the federal election being called.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a Telstra business centre's IT technician accused of supplying drugs, accessing p-rnography, sending the director's confidential documents outside the company and remotely locking the entire workplace out of the network during an investigation into his conduct.
The Federal Court will this afternoon hear an RTBU bid for an interim injunction to reinstate a delegate it says has been unlawfully sacked by the private operator of Sydney's newest rail line because he helped it to prepare for a majority support determination application.
The AWU's national leadership is pushing for a "progressive fee structure" that would involve bigger contributions from higher-paid workers and ditching the current flat-fee regime.
The ACTU is looking to kickstart the union movement's federal election campaign by staging fourteen "Change the Rules" rallies across the nation today.
CFMMEU members at the Port Kembla Coal Terminal returned to work this morning after voting up a new agreement that secures their jobs and provides their first pay rise since 2014.
The Federal Court has called "pens down" on two Adero Law class actions challenging Hays and Stellar Recruitment's use of casual mineworkers in the black coal industry, as the parties await Workpac's bid to thwart "double dipping" claims and consider additional cross claims.
In a rare FWC-arbitrated adverse action ruling, an employer has established that it sacked a bar supervisor because his performance deteriorated when he found out that it could not sponsor him for permanent residency and not because he asserted his workplace rights.
