Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has upbraided new ACTU leader Sally McManus for expressing her support for key affiliate the CFMEU's flouting of "unjust" IR laws.
Unions are fuming after the sacking of about 800 workers as a result of a contractual dispute over payments between two companies working on the massive Ichthys LNG project in Darwin.
A Queensland parliamentary inquiry has endorsed legislation banning large new resource projects from engaging a 100% fly-in, fly-out workforce, but is calling for it apply retrospectively and go further in opening up employment to those in outlying areas.
A senior union-clientele lawyer has warned unions that the FWC might replace the term "penalty rates" with "additional remuneration" and cut compensation for working unsociable hours in industries beyond retail and hospitality.
Newly-elected ACTU secretary, Sally McManus, has blasted "corporate greed" and pledged to win major changes to workplace laws, which will include pushing for stronger action from future Labor governments.
The Fair Work Commission has given the green-light for a protected action ballot at Australia's largest grain exporter, after rejecting its claims that the MUA was not genuinely trying to reach agreement and that its WA branch leader engaged in unlawful coercion during bargaining.
The RTBU is challenging the FWC's refusal to determine a dispute over a proposed restructure by Pacific National, claiming a "burdensome requirement" to name individual members involved threatens to "corrode" union power.
The Opposition has launched an "Australian jobs taskforce" that will visit suburban and regional areas to tap into public concerns about cuts to penalty rates in the retail and hospitality sectors.
The NUW has today asked its former NSW leader Derrick Belan about evidence he gave to the Heydon Royal Commission, as it defends his brother Nick's unfair dismissal claim in the FWC.
FWC rejects apprehended bias claim in bullying case; Lawrence to move on after four years on bench; FWC refuses to stay Belan unfair dismissal case; FWC refuses to extend scope of Visy agreement; and correction to construction code article.
