The dedicated union for air traffic controllers has lost the first part of a demarcation dispute, after the FWC accepted that it and the TWU have overlapping coverage of Airservices Australia air traffic controllers.
The Albanese Government's revised legislation to cap the concessional tax treatment for earnings from superannuation accounts with balances exceeding $3 million has passed unamended after winning Greens support.
WA Catholic education employers have won a rare voting request order allowing them to put a single interest multi-deal to a ballot despite the IEU's opposition, as the union accuses them of using the Secure Jobs tool as a "battering ram".
Economists, labour market researchers, and unions have hit back at claims more deregulation is the key to productivity growth, in submissions to a Senate inquiry.
The FWC has rejected the unfair dismissal claim of a Workpac on-hire trades assistant shunted from a BHP Coal mine while on approved leave, finding it a redundancy regardless of whether the host engaged someone else in the role.
The FWC has cleared the way for a worker to challenge his "unusual" temporary sacking, confirming an administrative error that unintentionally ousts an employee can still amount to a "dismissal at law".
The FWC has refused to grant BHP a sweeping order enabling it to transfer its in-house labour-hire workers to its vast array of Pilbara iron ore mines.
The Business Council is asking the Albanese Government to allow employers to delay by up to a month the time they have to make final notice and accrued but untaken annual leave payments, to modernise an outmoded regime designed for cash payments.
A NSW PSA legal officer accused of falsifying her timesheets while working from home has failed to halt a misconduct investigation, but the FWC has directed the union to appoint an independent third party to continue the probe.
The newly-released full ACTU submission to the NES review calls for the Albanese Government to reduce maximum weekly hours from 38 to 35, as a step towards a four-day week, along with considering a national long service leave standard.
