The ACTU's national executive has been briefed today on a UK proposal to shift towards sectoral collective bargaining, which has already influenced Labour Party workplace policy under leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The ACTU's national executive has called on the Morrison Government to rule out changing the Fair Work Act to overturn the full Federal Court's Workpac decison, in which it found that a regular casual employee was entitled to leave payments.
The High Court has today increased the share of profits a funeral fund must pay to a competitor from $6.6m to $14.8 million, after finding it "knowingly took advantage" of two business managers who approached it with a business plan based on the rival's confidential information.
A Shorten Labor Government would establish an independent body to oversee "rigorous" labour market testing to guide the issuing of visas for temporary and skilled overseas workers.
Former Australian Public Service Commissioner Lynelle Briggs is to conduct the aged care royal commission, alongside supreme court judge Joseph McGrath, the Morrison Government announced this afternoon.
An FWC full bench has effectively quashed s418 anti-strike orders that stopped the CFMMEU taking industrial action against two mobile crane operators that accused it of pattern bargaining.
The FWC has found the RTBU organised unprotected industrial action at Queensland Rail in the lead-up to the state's River Fire Festival weekend and couched a directive discouraging members from participating "in terms that rallied" them.
Queensland's Industrial Court has confirmed that the State Government's Crown Law solicitors can represent other public sector departments, rejecting a bid by union Together to block their appearance during an industrial dispute with the Department of Education.
A tribunal has ordered an employer to pay $10,000 in damages to a female employee for discouraging her from making a complaint about a male co-worker's s-xually harassing and "menacing" comments.
In another decision warning labour hire companies to tread carefully when carrying out dismissals at a client's behest, the FWC has ordered an employer to compensate a drug and alcohol tester who BHP locked out from one of its mine sites before the completion of her contract.
