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Shadow IR Minister Julia Gillard has refused to rule out setting a cap on the number of employees for small businesses to be exempt from unfair dismissal laws under Labor's planned workplace law changes.

The union representing Qantas international pilots has this morning launched a Federal Court challenge to the sale of the airline to private equity buyers, saying that if it goes ahead, all members' jobs will be transferred to the low-cost, low-pay Jetstar subsidiary by 2015.

Couple sacked for being trouble, not for union involvement, says Federal Court; AMWU food division challenge before the court; Independent Contractors Act to commence March; and Della Bosca intervenes in dismissal case involving OHS issues.

The ABCC has begun a coercion and false representations action involving potential large penalties against the CFMEU's Victorian construction branch and three delegates, alleging they forced a building contractor to sign an agreement and join the industry super fund before he could start work on a mining construction site.

A full bench of the NSW IRC has upheld a finding that the sacking of a court officer for both harassment and sexual harassment was unfair, but said it made its ruling "not without hesitation" and warned that "no employee who engages in harassment of any kind could take any comfort from our decision".

Wages down in real terms since Work Choices, says ACTU; Performance pay for teachers an AWA push, Burrow says; Federal Government to strengthen secondary boycott provisions; Lorissa Stevens duress case in court next month; Bench reserves on Ponzio strike pay appeal; and $33,000 penalty for art supplier who underpaid workers.

A South Australian cleaning company that breached the Work Choices agreement-making rules has escaped prosecution in the Federal Magistrates Court on the basis that there was no valid agreement to prosecute.

Sacked employees might have a new common law avenue for unfair dismissal claims after a NSW Supreme Court decision implying duties of confidence and good faith in employment agreements.

The NSW IRC's inquiry into Tristar will on Wednesday February 28 hear a challenge from the company, which argues it has no power to proceed.

A company involved in a controversy over the introduction of allegedly sub-standard AWAs after the takeover of a Perth supermarket has failed to stop an OWS prosecution for duress in the transmission of business.