An FWC full bench has found the tribunal lacked the power to settle a rostering dispute between the CFMEU and an underground coal mine because the enterprise agreement called for both parties to concur on how the matter should proceed.
Former CFMEU mining and energy division national secretary John Maitland has been sentenced to six years' jail for his part in a multi-million dollar rip-off of NSW taxpayers.
While the FWC is hopeful its New Approaches program has helped reset lengthy and acrimonious negotiations between offshore oil and gas operator MMA Offshore and the MUA, AMMA concedes the industry still faces substantial challenges when it comes to the "process" of finalising new agreements.
Rail freight operator Aurizon is to cut more than 300 jobs in central and north Queensland, with Rockhampton workers to bear the brunt of the impact as the city's historic maintenance workshops are shuttered.
The Australian Constructors Association has supported evidence given by ABC Commissioner Nigel Hadgkiss over a hotly-contested claim by Labor Senator Doug Cameron during a Senate Estimates hearing this week.
The RTBU says public bus drivers across Sydney who today wore mufti and refused to collect fares to protest privatisation plans were unaware of a NSW IRC order overnight demanding that it direct members not to engage in any form of industrial action.
A growing number of professions are running unlawful internship programs that prey on vulnerable young workers, according to a leading employment lawyer.
A security company must provide United Voice with internal correspondence about its practice of engaging contractors and employees, as the union pursues it for allegedly employing two embassy guards on sham contracts and sacking them when they refused to waive legal rights.
The industrial advocate pursuing Employment Minister Michaelia Cash over adverse findings against her in the Heerey report into former FWC Vice President Michael Lawler's conduct today failed to secure a judicial review before a full Federal Court.
An FWC member asked to resolve a question of safe work practices at a Port Kembla steelworks has described the "heavy burden" associated with making a determination, calling on the opposing parties to put aside their "past fractious approach…to properly discharge (their) workplace safety obligations".
