The Greens intend to use their leverage in the Senate to press a future Federal Labor Government to permit industry-wide bargaining, enshrine the right to strike and remove restrictions on agreement content.
New South Wales Labor has foreshadowed plans to amend the State IR Act to extend minimum pay and employment conditions to workers using digital platforms.
The FWC has upheld Toyota's sacking of a supervisor for improperly exercising his power, finding his "benevolent sexism" and inappropriate behaviour towards a group of young, female fixed-term contractors created a weird, dirty and unhealthy environment.
The FWC has found "justified, proportionate and fair" the summary sacking of a health worker whose duties included running a men's group that addressed issues including domestic violence, after police arrested and charged him with assaulting his partner.
The Human Rights Commission has found that finance, banking and insurance giant Suncorp discriminated against a job candidate by withdrawing a conditional employment offer due to his criminal record for accessing child p-rnography, but the employer is standing by its decision and has refused to pay compensation.
Yesterday's full Federal Court ruling has cleared the way for the ABCC to seek personal payment orders against 22 CFMMEU officials - most of them organisers rather than elected officials - in 14 current court cases.
Better skills training needed for rebounding manufacturing sector, says report; Full bench quashes ruling published due to administrative error; and FWC renews MUA official's permit despite transgressions.
A court has ruled that a client of IR advisor Employsure was not required to pay out the balance of its $18,000, five-year contract when it quit after eight months.
An FWC full bench has made a significant decision on what constitutes new activity when making greenfields agreements, after the CFMMEU described the deal as a "a cynical, industrially incorrigible and flawed attempt to bypass bargaining with its employees and their union of choice".
The NTEU's newly-elected national secretary Matthew McGowan and president Alison Barnes are calling on members to make their team complete by electing current WA secretary Gabe Gooding to the national assistant secretary position.
