Workers at spice giant McCormick Foods are commencing rolling strikes today as a call for a consumer boycott of iconic products such as Aeroplane Jelly and Keen's Mustard gains traction on social media.
United Voice will oppose employer groups representing licenced clubs and restaurants being allowed to "re-litigate" the claims they unsuccessfully argued in the penalty rates case.
The ACTU is asking the FWC for a $45 a week or 6.7% increase in the national minimum wage, as it begins a push under its fresh leadership to lift minimum rates towards a new benchmark against average weekly earnings.
An FWC full bench in an extempore ruling has quashed a decision that might have exposed employees to 12 months' jail if they failed to participate in a mandatory majority support ballots.
The Supreme Court has ordered a school uniform importer and manufacturer's former business development manager suspected of taking confidential information with her when she left to start her own business to hand over digital files for inspection.
Former FWC vice president Graeme Watson refused to share with other members of a full bench the conclusion of his decision on the ACTU's domestic violence clause claim, an internal memo released by the tribunal's president has revealed.
New Federal Court judges; Bullying case allowed to proceed; FWC targets 10 more awards for plain language treatment; Nurses turn to people power to fight penalty rates proposal; and TriCare yet to cut conditions following agreement termination, says union.
Victoria's public school teachers have won a 14% pay rise and an extra four annual non-teaching "planning" days under a four-year deal that also boosts principals' pay by 17% and provides permanency for at least 7,500 contract teachers and support workers.
NSW IRC member Peter Newall has lavished praise on parties to a new industry rates determination that started in bitter dispute and ended in mutual celebration, after progressing in the most "sophisticated" manner he'd seen in more than two decades in IR.
