A self-represented worker who is pursuing a bullying claim in the FWC would be placed at "further disadvantage" if her employer and two managers already being assisted by in-house HR specialists won the right to legal representation, the tribunal has ruled.
The Federal Court has expedited the union application to quash the Fair Work Commission's cuts to penalty rates, but a three-day hearing will nevertheless start no earlier than September 18.
Coles has begun bargaining for a new enterprise agreement covering about 75,000 supermarket employees, with the SDA and the rival Retail and Fast Food Workers Union both involved in negotiations for the first time.
Building supply company Boral has warned it might sack about 100 employees of a subsidiary after they rejected amendments needed for their enterprise agreement to comply with the national construction code.
A tribunal has rejected a claim by a paramedic and union delegate that his employer victimised him when it investigated him for accepting police assurances that a patient was dead rather than follow standard procedures to check whether he was alive.
As union members protest outside the FWC in Perth today against Murdoch University's application to terminate its 2014 enterprise agreement, the tribunal is expected to rule on the employer's bid to have the case heard behind closed doors.
The Turnbull Government says an alliance with the Australians Retailers Association will deliver up to 10,000 internships, in a major step for the Coalition’s interns program.
The WA IRC has found a manager of an Australian-based company working overseas is entitled to pursue a contractual benefits claim, despite performing all but a fortnight of his two years in the job in Sweden.
