The Victorian Government has re-introduced legislation that will extend regulation of owner-drivers to digital platform businesses such as Uber Freight and Uber Eats.
An academic has welcomed a significant FWC full bench finding that a worker's refusal to participate in fingerprint scanning did not justify his dismissal and warns that many employers lack awareness of their legal obligations and the potential consequences of biometric technology.
A full Federal Court majority has today rejected a judge's reasoning for ordering the MUA to pay a fine of just $38,000 for a week-long unlawful strike at Hutchison Ports' Sydney and Brisbane container terminals, but has rebuffed the FWO's contention that the stevedore should have been awarded $600,000 in damages it didn't seek.
Victoria's Parliament has passed legislation that will enable public sector workers to bargain for a wider range of matters, including minimum staffing levels and job security.
The SDA says a new deal voted up this week by Bunnings workers finally removes a contentious "bank of hours" rostering system that it fought to abolish or amend over six separate bargaining rounds.
The FWC has held that an agreement negotiated with two train drivers but set to cover an entire transferred workforce on the Roy Hill Pilbara mine network was not genuinely agreed, but it is asking whether this is a minor error that can be dealt with via an undertaking, "odd as that may be".
A tribunal has ruled against UFU Victorian branch and national secretary Peter Marshall in a dispute over defined benefit superannuation that could have added about $1 million to his retirement benefits.
The ETU's Queensland and NT branch says it will agitate to have three-weeks-on/one-week-off rosters enshrined in all future resource industry construction agreements in its backyard, after EnerMech workers voted up a deal that switches from a 4/1 roster on the Ichthys LNG Project.
Federal Labor has promised to negotiate with Liberal state governments over the introduction of harmonised industrial manslaughter laws if it wins the May 18 federal election.
The Federal Court has ordered a construction company to reinstate an electrician until it decides whether it took adverse action by sacking him within 10 days of his becoming a health and safety representative and reporting suspected asbestos in a water tunnel.
