A tribunal has found Victoria's justice department indirectly discriminated against a prison worker who failed to declare his diabetes on engagement when its requirement to work unreasonable hours to meet a greater workload made his condition unstable.
A CEPU official has alleged that fellow officials participated in hearing complaints against her after earlier making bullying and threatening telephone calls, the Federal Court has been told.
Private sector rates of pay excluding bonuses are growing at 1.9% a year in trend terms, up from the recent historic low of 1.8%, according to the ABS.
An academic has welcomed a UK appeal tribunal decision holding that Uber drivers are workers entitled to minimum wages and conditions, saying that it confirms that the employment models used by digital platform providers lack any legitimacy.
Unions call for rejection of non-parties' push to delay merger hearing; Slaters client moves to rival; Victorian IR Minister takes leave; IR bills set for debate this week; Staniforth lodges dispute in FWC; Sham contract companies should have known better, says judge; and FWC revises forms.
The CFMEU says it is confident in its challenge to an agreement Thiess struck with three maintenance workers prior to securing a major mining contract, after a full Federal Court remitted the employer's appeal on the basis that an FWC full bench wrongly denied the union "the fruits of its victory".
A union delegate has been reinstated after the FWC determined that the absence of managerial opposition to a brief on-site "undies" protest meant it failed the legislative definition of unlawful industrial action.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has quietly established a special unit that has multiple investigations afoot in the commercial construction industry.
The leader of the Nick Xenophon Team says that his party "will not be rushed" into passing contentious IR legislation that is before the Senate this week.
