Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash threatened during a Senate Estimates hearing this morning to name female staffers from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's office, about whom "rumours abound".
The live entertainment industry's peak body has called for feedback on its first mandatory employer code to prevent discrimination, sex harassment and bullying, while the MEAA is forging ahead with plans for a national approach targeting the sector's performance workers and operators.
Employers are not automatically entitled to reduce roster allowances when working hours fall below an agreement's "indicative" threshold, a court has found.
The AFP has interviewed staffers from more than one ministerial office in its investigation into the leaking of information on last year's raids on the AWU, a Senate Estimates hearing has been told.
Ai Group says it will challenge an FWC full bench's series of draft model clauses imposing "onerous record-keeping requirements" and other complex conditions that it claims would negate the benefits of annualised wage arrangements.
An FWC full bench majority has refused to accept that an employer's flawed investigation process, coupled with uncharacteristic behaviour purportedly sparked by mixing medication and alcohol, excused a coal miner sacked over profanity-laced threats to co-workers.
The RTBU's Victorian branch has taken its legal work away from Slater & Gordon, due to the firm's loss of key personnel and its shift to ownership by US hedge funds.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered an end to Glencore's lockout and a CFMEU picket at the Oaky North coal mine in Queensland, to provide a cooling-off period before a second vote on a proposed agreement on March 27.
One of Victoria's most senior judges has queried whether the blackmail charges laid against two CFMEU officials over an alleged secondary boycott of Boral are a "little experimental".
