ACTU secretary Sally McManus has boosted the peak union body's industrial law capacity by hiring the CFMEU construction and general division's senior national legal officer, Tom Roberts.
A FWC full bench has quashed a ruling that it was harsh for a vessel operator to sack a captain for breaching its drug and alcohol policy when he reported for duty after consuming 10 beers.
A Fair Work Commission full bench will consider how the BOOT should be applied to enterprise agreements that roll up penalty rates and other benefits into loaded rates of pay.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is calling for businesses, unions and employers to do "something radical, something profoundly different" by resuming 1980s-style cooperation to end wage stagnation and boost the economy.
The ANMF has cemented its spot as Australia's biggest union – with a record 270,000 members - as federal secretary Lee Thomas announces that she will depart next month.
The ANMF's Victorian branch has obtained undertakings from health services business Bupa for a temporary halt to a re-organisation of management at its aged care homes.
A senior FWC member has floated the idea of the Commission playing a greater role in adverse action cases so they can be finalised faster than under the current regime, which he says can take four years.
An Essential Energy employee has launched adverse action proceedings in which she claims the power retailer failed to lawfully deal with her request to transfer to part-time work and effectively dismissed her by refusing to allow her to rescind her resignation.
After entering into an FWO compliance partnership that commits it to taking responsibility for underpayments across its trolley collection network for the past three years, Woolworths says it would welcome working with any regulatory body to ensure workers in all supply chains are paid correctly.
