Catholic school employers have failed to convince the FWC to refer to a full bench its challenge to the right of NSW and ACT teachers to take protected action on the basis their dioceses are not "single interest employers" as required by the Fair Work Act.
New FWC member Peter Anderson has been credited with authorship of influential ministerial discussion papers almost 20 years ago that presaged the use of the corporations power to underpin a national IR system, in a welcome ceremony at which President Iain Ross confirmed the re-appointment of Commission general manager Bernadette O'Neill.
Telstra has suspended a planned vote to vary an agreement to comply with the building code and has applied to the ABCC for an exemption following a Turnbull Government amendment that allows exemptions for the construction of essential services.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has agreed to enter into mediation with an employee who accuses it of taking adverse action by suspending and demoting her and directing her to take indefinite leave following a long absence for cancer treatment and surgery.
The FWC has reaffirmed its jurisdictional ambit to determine right-of-entry disputes after an employer questioned whether it was seeking to exercise judicial powers it does not possess.
Labour productivity grew at a higher average annual rate in the five years to 2015-16 than it did over the past 15 and 30 years, according to new Treasury analysis, but a leading labour market economist has criticised the "arbitrary and misleading" window chosen for the study.
The former finance manager of a barristers' clerking company is seeking more than $285,000 for hurt, humiliation and lost wages, as part of an adverse action claim in which she alleges its chief executive and its chair - an industrial barrister - were "knowingly concerned" in disciplining then sacking her after she made a bullying complaint.
Major construction company Laing O'Rourke has failed to convince the FWC that a current agreement clause could effectively render its NSW and ACT deals compliant with the building code, but the tribunal has recommended that the CFMEU and employees take all necessary steps to achieve compliance.
Aldi's bid to halt campaigning by the TWU that amounts to "injurious falsehood" and to pre-emptively stop picket lines remains on foot, after the Federal Court last week rejected its bid for an interlocutory injunction.
