Employer free to make agreement without unions after court ruling; FWC orders employer to hire positive communication trainers; Regular casual's resignation after reduction in hours not dismissal; and Blaming secretary doesn't wash with court.
The Queensland Government will push for Australia's first State industrial manslaughter laws to go national at next year's review of the model OHS laws, IR Minister Grace Grace's office has confirmed.
Coalition senators, in a new Senate inquiry report, have rejected concerns about the "ensuring integrity" bill that introduces a public interest test for union mergers, while minority Labor and Greens senators have dismissed the legislation as "politically-driven" and "politically-motivated".
An FWC full bench has upheld a decision that found workers should be paid for unworked overtime hours under an inclement weather provision that applies to enterprise agreements across the Icthys LNG project near Darwin.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has boosted the peak union body's industrial law capacity by hiring the CFMEU construction and general division's senior national legal officer, Tom Roberts.
A FWC full bench has quashed a ruling that it was harsh for a vessel operator to sack a captain for breaching its drug and alcohol policy when he reported for duty after consuming 10 beers.
A Fair Work Commission full bench will consider how the BOOT should be applied to enterprise agreements that roll up penalty rates and other benefits into loaded rates of pay.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is calling for businesses, unions and employers to do "something radical, something profoundly different" by resuming 1980s-style cooperation to end wage stagnation and boost the economy.
The ANMF has cemented its spot as Australia's biggest union – with a record 270,000 members - as federal secretary Lee Thomas announces that she will depart next month.
The ANMF's Victorian branch has obtained undertakings from health services business Bupa for a temporary halt to a re-organisation of management at its aged care homes.
