The CFMEU says "broken" IR laws have enabled a "third party" to stop protected action aimed at securing an agreement with boosted redundancy entitlements before a new employer takes over a service contract at a coal mine.
On the opening day of their Federal Court challenge to the cuts to penalty rates in the hospitality and retail sectors, unions have been barraged by sustained questioning from judges.
Lawyers float solutions for Linked-in problem; NTEU asks members to help to isolate Murdoch University; Ellis new Tasmanian Industrial Commission member; International dispute resolution experts headline FWC-convened conference; and Lendlease wins code-compliant deal.
ANZ employees have overwhelmingly endorsed an interim 12-month agreement that pays a 3% increase and "grandfathers" district allowances for current employees, ahead of a restructure designed to make the bank more "agile".
The FWC has endorsed an ASU member’s dismissal for breaching his employer’s "respectful conduct" policy with his repeated aggressive and disrespectful behaviour towards its chief operating officer during bargaining for a new agreement.
The AMWU is accusing Unilever of seeking to "gag" Streets workers from using social media to vent their frustration at plans to terminate an enterprise agreement at a Sydney ice cream plant.
The union movement's crucial bid to overturn the cuts to penalty rates in the retail and hospitality sectors kicks off tomorrow before a rare five-judge full Federal Court.
Andrew Staniforth, the leader of the union for domestic flight attendants, has agreed not to perform his role or enter the union's office as he pursues it in a Federal Court case.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has admitted it took adverse action by docking the personal leave of a director it placed on indefinite leave following a long absence for cancer treatment and surgery, but says it reversed it before her general protections proceedings started.
The Coalition's legislation that would raise maximum fines from $750.000 to $10 million for secondary boycotts is no certainty to become law after Nick Xenophon Team senators joined the Greens and Labor to declare it would not support it.
