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.
Workers at a Victorian timber mill have voted up an enterprise agreement they turned down last month, ending a bitter 10-week lockout the Victorian Government had been seeking to terminate.
Julius Roe retiring from FWC; Court weighing penalties against individual workers; Judicial review in September of code's extension; and Swan warns of dangers of trickledown economics, "hollowing-out" of middle class.
The main protagonists have landed their last blows ahead of Sunday penalty rate cuts coming into effect this weekend, United Voice calling on restaurant and pub patrons to pressure bosses over whether they value their staff, while AiG insists that July 1's parallel "hefty" minimum wage rise not only sees workers better off, but saddles employers with bigger wage bills.
