The FWC has rejected a bid for bargaining orders to stop an agreement going to ballot, finding the employer was entitled to "draw a line in the sand" and refuse further negotiations.
The Family Court has refused a husband's request to have his wife barred from entering the premises of their family business on the basis that a poisonous atmosphere might damage their shared asset.
Uber drivers signal further strikes after Melbourne "log-off"; Mock hearing to celebrate Harvester's 110th birthday; and Petrol station chain forced to admit breaches to public.
The FWC has approved an agreement struck with three underground mineworkers that exposes them to fines for failing to comply with directions and safety procedures but provides hourly rates up to 35% higher than the award and up to $28,000 a year in bonus payments.
The FWC has confirmed it has the power to determine a dispute between labour supplier WorkPac and the CFMEU over pay cuts at a Rio Tinto coal mine, but its intervention is conditional on the union naming the employees involved.
Adelaide University Professor of Law, Andrew Stewart, has told a parliamentary inquiry that he does not support the passage of the Coalition's "corrupting benefits" legislation in its current form because its prohibitions are "either too wide, or too uncertain, or both".
The Federal Court has acknowledged in imposing more than $100,000 in fines on the AMWU, AWU and CFMEU and their organisers for taking unlawful industrial action and adverse action against Australian Paper that the unions only became involved when they "properly responded to the workers' needs".
The Federal Court has today imposed almost $600,000 in fines on the CFMEU and 10 officials for organising two days of industrial action at nine Kane Constructions sites three years ago.
A tribunal has canvassed the reasonable disclosures expected of a jobseeker with a disability, in awarding $10,000 in damages to a bus driver with a borderline personality disorder.
