The Federal Labor Opposition has confirmed it is at odds with key industry bodies in accepting the link between truck drivers' pay and conditions and road safety, but stopped short of committing to re-establishing the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT).
A long-serving Fair Work Commission member received financial advice in 2016 that would have immediately cost her $500,000 in superannuation funds, the banking royal commission has heard.
A Coles Supermarkets employee who tried to terminate the retailer's 2011 agreement has praised her employer's "engaging" approach to consultation, while RAFFWU says it learnt that it needs a "rolled gold" case when mounting challenges, after the tribunal approved the Wesfarmers subsidiary's new deal
A majority shareholder who "worked very hard" as company secretary of a start-up for more than two years before her board chairman husband informed her she was being removed was not protected from unfair dismissal, the FWC has found.
Coles deal gets up; Injunction against entry under state laws; IR barrister appointed to gallery board; and After full house, ROC wants to know if you want more.
The ACTU has provided an insight into the messages it is likely to use to target 11 marginal Coalition seats in the lead-up to the next federal election, utilising its affiliates' membership bases to campaign in their local communities on wages, job security, employment growth and increasing union power.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has called for the $590 billion industry superannuation fund sector to reconsider their commercial relationships with "dodgy banks" named at the Hayne Royal Commission into the finance sector.
A senior FWC member denied an employer procedural fairness when she failed to give it a chance to respond to her finding that a key witness had "something to hide", a full bench has ruled.
The FWC has refused to grant engineering employers more time to comply with production orders in the IEU's equal pay claim on behalf of early childhood teachers, finding neither provided a "proper basis" despite one having a director off work due to complications arising from cancer surgery.
