Today's confirmation that the NSW IRC will be moving nearly 30 kilometres from its current CBD home represents a "significant impediment to accessing justice", says NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association general secretary Brett Holmes.
The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union says it will not be pressured into applying for registration until it is ready, as the Australian Industry Group seeks to constrain its challenge to a proposed relaxation of part-time provisions in the four-yearly review of the Fast Food Industry Award.
A senior FWC member has approved an employer's request for legal representation in a dismissal case, but not before requiring hearings be conducted in private, that he be free to provide "appropriate" guidance to the unrepresented former worker, and that he retain the power to revoke permission if the lawyer complicates proceedings.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a long-serving handyman for serious misconduct that included continually touching a young receptionist, finding it was "understandable" given their age difference that she did not feel able to tell him to stop.
The FWC has ordered the ANMF and United Voice to call off planned industrial action at a patient transport provider, finding their failure to provide greater clarity when notifying the action than they did when applying for the ballot left the employer unable to respond or prepare.
Victorian firefighters leader Peter Marshall, who is facing a challenge from a long-serving fireman and former delegate in branch elections that close next month, says his faith in the Andrews Labor Government has been "shattered" by its choice of a UK candidate to lead the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.
Aviation unions say they will fight to protect job security, pay and conditions following a deal by Qantas to sell its catering business to a services company that is part of the Emirates Group.
Pilots at budget domestic airline Tigerair Australia have strongly endorsed an unlimited number of four-hour strikes and indefinite work bans to help push their bargaining claims for a new three-year agreement.
High Court has revoked a worker's special leave to appeal, finding the absence of an employment contract impeded its ability to determine legal questions around whether her employer had a duty to protect her from psychological damage caused by its investigation of a workplace assault.
The ACTU will today release economic modelling to bolster its argument that a $50-a-week increase in the minimum wage would be a job creator rather than a job destroyer, as claimed by employer groups.
