The High Court has today unanimously upheld a Unions NSW challenge to the validity of state election funding laws that curtail spending by "third party campaigners" such as unions.
The FWC has accepted that a construction employer seeking approval of its agreement had just two employees after it clarified that a claim on its website that it employed "nearly 100 professionals" was just "for the purpose of marketing".
Former Howard Government IR Minister Peter Reith, barrister Stuart Wood and union leader Graeme Kelly have been recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours.
In a blow to the business model of aviation services provider Aerocare, the Federal Court has ruled today that it cannot require its part-time employees to work split shifts.
The HSU's Victorian No 1 branch says a Registered Organisations Commission investigation into claims it cashed-out leave and RDOs to fund a private legal bid refers to secretary Diana Asmar's successful 2014 court action that knocked out two leadership challengers.
The AFAP says Tigerair pilots had little choice but to strike today after the company mounted a legal challenge to plans for lower-level bans, but VIPA says its members chose not to take action as the airline "moved considerably" in negotiations for a new deal.
The FWC has issued majority support determinations requiring two major engineering companies to bargain with CEPU members on the Ichthys LNG project, despite the employers' protests that work will be complete before any agreement could be reached.
Amazon has hit back at claims by a senior executive assistant that it sacked her for requesting family-friendly hours while her husband was hospitalised, maintaining that it made her redundant as it no longer required her role to be performed by anyone.
The failure of a construction company's HR team to adequately explain two proposed "baseline agreements" or provide access to relevant awards has proven fatal to their approval, the FWC finding that other issues of non-compliance could have been dealt with by undertakings.
