Unions are seeking the reinstatement of powers to inspect non-members' time and wages records, after their analysis of 200 job advertisements aimed at Chinese, Korean and Spanish-speakers showed that almost four out of every five pay less than the award.
Road freight group NatRoad has been thwarted in its attempt to win a seat at the IR table in NSW, describing the dismissal of its application to register as an employer organisation as "totally unintelligible".
Boral has retreated from threats to make about 100 workers at Sydney-based concreting subsidiary De Martin & Gasparini (DMG) redundant before the end of the month, today providing undertakings to extend the trigger point to August 10 and give at least 10 days' notice of any revised plans.
FWC President Iain Ross will now preside over the domestic violence leave case and might combine it with the family-frendly work arrangements case, he revealed in a statement today.
The FWC has rejected a claim that a Bunnings Warehouse supervisor bullied an employee when she asked him about his "deformities", but not before criticising the HR department's handling of the worker's complaint.
Liquidators seeking to recover almost $67 million in taxpayer funds paid to former Queensland Nickel employees have avoided a "chase for Skase" scenario after they yesterday served papers on counsel for holidaying ex-director Clive Palmer and 20 others.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has made three new deputy president appointments to the Fair Work Commission - two with a strong resource sector employer background and the third from employer clientele law firm Seyfarth Shaw.
The SDA is pursuing a Good Guys discount appliance store and the chain's HR manager in the Federal Court for allegedly taking adverse action against a salesperson when it denied his union representative the opportunity to speak during a performance review.
The FWC will next month hold a preliminary hearing into the proposed merger of the CFMEU, MUA and TCFU, but resources sector employers have already indicated they might seek to be heard because of the alleged threat to the stability of the supply chain "from pit to port".
An appeal court has found that restraint of trade provisions in employment contracts are unenforceable if the employer repudiates the contract, after an accountancy firm lost its bid to stop a professional employee setting up shop in Tasmania.
