The union representing coal mining staff and supervisors has welcomed today's full Federal Court endorsement of the FWC's authorisation of multi-employer bargaining with three coal-mining giants, even though it has now chosen to pursue single enterprise deals.
Silk Liam Kelly, who has a strong background in commercial law, and two junior counsel have been appointed to assist Commissioner Stuart Wood KC's inquiry into the CFMEU construction and general division's Queensland branch
The FWC has found an employer that accused a carpenter of submitting a "fake doctor's certificate" complied with the small business fair dismissal code when it summarily sacked him.
The Federal Court has today resolved issues about the construction of the retail award ahead of determining compensation for tens of thousands of underpaid Coles and Woolworths managers, while upbraiding the FWO and Adero, which brought the cases, for running them in a manner that made them "unacceptably complex".
If unions lead the way, AI provides a "once-in-a-generation chance" to rebuild the middle class and restore dignity to workers that has been eroded by "decades of rising inequality and casualisation", Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh has told an ACTU AI symposium.
CFMEU construction division administrator Mark Irving KC is seeking stronger assistance and legislative change to tackle organised crime in the industry, including where a nefarious element is controlling businesses or "is the employer".
FWC GM Murray Furlong has reminded the Albanese Government of recommendations to legislate to reverse onerous regulatory requirements imposed by the former Coalition Government on registered organisations that go beyond what is required of listed companies, in response to a request for productivity-lifting initiatives ahead of last month's economic reform roundtable.
A FWC full bench has refused to extend a zombie agreement that it twice prolonged while a West Australian coffee chain negotiated and sought approval of a new deal that the FWC has since refused to approve because it failed the BOOT.
An employment service worker caught out by a legal technicality has won more time to challenge his sacking, which he links to an allegedly "inappropriate" workplace conversation after a Sorry Day event.
The QNMU is backing "in the strongest terms" a Crisafulli Liberal Government pay offer said to retain a nation-leading edge for most nurses and midwives by boosting their "earning potential", while public school teachers have accepted a Queensland IRC recommendation to pause industrial action for a month.
