The operator of Melbourne's new third container terminal says it will launch legal action to end a picket allegedly organised by the MUA and CFMEU, while seeking damages of more than $100 million.
South Australia's Weatherill Labor Government will continue to push for national laws regulating labour hire, even though the state this week passed its own laws.
The royal commission announced today by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is set to consider banks' remuneration and recruitment practices, its draft terms of reference reveal.
Deliveroo Australia is "constrained" from offering improved benefits for riders because it wants to protect its model of engaging contractors rather than employees, says the food delivery business's national manager.
"Mere imperfection" doesn't make management action "bullying", says FWC; NSW rail workers voting on industrial action; Victoria to introduce "jobs cop"; and FWC publishes proceedings of international dispute conference.
The FWC has upheld a building company's sacking of a safety officer who insisted his job was limited to an advisory capacity despite repeated warnings that he was to rigorously enforce safety across sites.
The chair of Vision Super, former union leader Brian Parkinson, has stood aside on full pay while the industry fund seeks more information on governance arrangements when he ran a Victorian branch of the ASU.
In a reply submission ahead of an FWC full bench hearing in Sydney tomorrow, United Voice and the AEU have hit out at employers' objections to the use of a 2005 work value case to establish metalworkers as an appropriate comparator in their equal pay claim for early childhood workers.
The NUW has teamed with a law firm to run what is billed as an Australian-first class action where the union acts as the lead litigant with support from litigation funders.
The meatworkers' union has released an explosive "black market labour investigation" that accuses a meat processing company, a regional local government authority and labour suppliers of working together to exploit temporary migrants on working holiday visas rather than employ locals.
