The ACTU will urge affiliated unions to consider backdating membership for young workers who want to join a union to have a problem resolved, along with providing free or reduced membership fees.
The founder of a barristers chambers breached an award consultation clause when he failed during her maternity leave to give his legal secretary timely notice that her position was under threat, a court has found.
Unions will next week consider pushing for stronger remedies for unfair dismissal by adopting measures such as removing the $73,000 compensation limit, enabling employees to pursue more than their lost income and empowering them to seek penalties against employers.
Protected action should be available to workers without the need for a secret ballot, according to the draft IR policy to be put to the ACTU's triennial Congress next week.
The FWC has for a second time reinstated a worker sacked by serum giant CSL after extended absences, ruling that the company denied him the benefit of a generous "salary continuance" scheme in its enterprise agreement.
The FWC has given Workplace Minister Craig Laundy the go-ahead to put his case that the MFB agreement should be rejected because it contains discriminatory and objectionable terms and fails the BOOT.
The FWC has praised Australia Post subsidiary Startrack Express for its flawless process in dismissing an employee who "crossed a line" from tolerable crudity to unacceptable racism in his remarks to colleagues.
An order requiring the NTEU to give a university more than the statutory three days' notice of protected industrial action has been quashed by an FWC full bench that found a tribunal member wrongly presupposed that any such action would be suspended by the Commission if it interfered with student exams or graduation.
