Employer groups have began to push back against union and Labor support for a "living wage", with ACCI arguing it would cost between $4.8 billion and $7.9 billion per year.
The Queensland IRC has rebuffed a female employee's claim that the domestic violence she experienced amounted to sex discrimination under the State's Anti-Discrimination Act.
The Greens have introduced a private members' bill into the House of Representatives that would provide 10 days a year of paid domestic and family violence leave as part of the National Employment Standards.
The Federal Court has accepted that the ABCC made a "genuine mistake" when it pursued CFMEU national secretary Michael O'Connor for his alleged involvement in a blockade at Sydney's Barangaroo project.
An FWC full bench has today thrown out a United Voice and AEU equal pay claim for childcare workers after finding a 2005 work value case was insufficient, in the absence of contemporary evidence, to establish metalworkers as an appropriate comparator.
The NSW branch of the CFMEU's construction and general division has endorsed controversial official Darren Greenfield as its next state secretary to succeed its veteran leader Brian "Sparkles" Parker.
The FWO has again taken a bead on union behaviour, confirming today that it is investigating industrial action at the Oaky North mine in Queensland, where about 190 workers remain locked out after more than 200 days.
Putting a CFMEU sticker on an employer's hard hat could exclude a contractor from federal construction projects, according to expanded guidelines issued by the building industry watchdog last week.
The ALP should hand power to individual members of affiliated unions to vote on its leadership and candidates rather than leaving it in the hands of secretaries, says national president Mark Butler.
