One year into a landmark agreement between Airtasker and Unions NSW to improve pay and conditions, the company's chief executive Tim Fung has told a Senate inquiry the platform's technology is not up to the task of ensuring adherence to minimum pay and licensing requirements.
An administration manager sacked for being a "lying thief" has been awarded compensation of more than $13,000 after the FWC found instead that she had likely been made a scapegoat for a business's alleged attempt to commit insurance fraud.
Industry super fund, Vision Super, has appointed a new chair to succeed former ASU branch secretary Brian Parkinson after the union withdrew its nomination of him.
Victorian CFMMEU leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon have won access to affidavits police used to obtain warrants authorising telephone intercepts of their private conversations in 2015.
The ACTU will today call for new curbs on Australia's skilled migration program, so that it shifts from temporary and employer-sponsored visas towards permanent "independent migration".
Employees at the aviation ground-handling company Aerocare have overwhelmingly voted up a new enterprise agreement, despite two unions calling for a "no" vote.
Victorian CFMEU leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon are taking their fight to quash blackmail charges to the High Court, engaging top silk Bret Walker QC to argue their case.
The FWC has criticised the unreasonable inflexibility of a digital marketing agency that summarily dismissed a valued campaign manager who sought a small adjustment to its proposed revised working hours so she could continue to attend prepaid Pilates classes.
