The ALP's national conference has blunted a union push for a speedy increase in employer superannuation contributions to 15%, along with bans on for-profit retail super funds qualifying as default funds in the award system.
The Federal Court has fined ANMF WA branch secretary Mark Olson $6,600 for his "laxity" in failing to ensure the union submitted financial reports on time for three years in a row.
The head contractor on Victoria's $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel Project is attempting to win approval for a greenfields agreement by making the first use of 2015 amendments to the Fair Work Act.
Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten has pledged to include a right to superannuation in the National Employment Standards, which would give employees the power to pursue their unpaid superannuation.
The ABCC has been bolstered with the appointment of two new deputy commissioners, coming two days after the building watchdog received an additional funding injection of $3.7 million over four years.
Unions are seeking to revive a Keating Government target with their new push for Labor to commit to increasing compulsory superannuation contributions to 15% by 2030, but business groups say it would put more downward pressure on wages
A Full Federal Court has dismissed the Australian Mines and Metals Association's application to quash two FWC decisions approving the merger of the CFMEU, MUA and TCFU, offering a brief history lesson as to why outstanding civil penalty proceedings posed no barrier to the amalgamation.
Seven West Media says it will apply to terminate an enterprise agreement covering about 1300 employees unless it breaks a bargaining deadlock, making it arguably the highest-profile employer to pursue such a manoeuvre.
Armaguard has been ordered to reinstate two security guards sacked for their part in a "string of failures" that resulted in almost $60,000 cash being stolen, the FWC finding that the company failed to take into account numerous mitigating circumstances.
A supervisor at Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill iron ore mine claims the company sacked him for making complaints and inquiries about his employment, at one point allegedly interviewing a former colleague he'd accused of assaulting him in an attempt to "dig up dirt".
