A Supreme Court has reaffirmed the force of religious laws within employment contracts, restraining administrators at a cash-strapped Sydney synagogue from dismissing a rabbi after finding that his engagement conferred lifetime tenure under Orthodox Jewish law.
The Turnbull Government has made last-minute amendments to legislation outlawing the payment of corrupting benefits, which means it will not apply to those with a "nominal value" of less than $420.
An FWC full bench has vacated hearings for a workplace determination covering Department of Immigration and Border Protection workers as it tackles thorny threshold questions around whether evidence such as budget papers and annual reports is protected by parliamentary privilege.
An AMWU organiser penalised this year for his role in a strike over alleged safety issues looks set to win a new entry permit, on the condition that he undergo training on the interaction of IR and OHS statutes and when it is lawful to stop work.
An employer has responded to a salesperson's general protections case with a counterclaim seeking $450,000 in damages for lost sales and the cost of recruiting him because of his alleged misleading and deceptive conduct in making false pre-employment representations about his experience and seniority.
Employers are calling on the CFMEU to renegotiate more then 1,000 building industry enterprise agreements after the Senate voted to keep the national construction code.
Two former CFMEU organisers' long-running pursuit of compensation for allegedly being driven from their jobs for whistleblowing has stalled once again.
The Turnbull Government has accepted a large swathe of Labor amendments to legislation that makes it a criminal offence for a registered organisation to give, receive or solicit a "corrupting benefit".
An FWC full bench has thrown out a service provider's attempt to challenge the quashing of an agreement that was negotiated with employees not covered by it, prompting the TWU to seek a new deal for members engaged under it to deliver a cut-price government contract.
