The FWC has refused to order a TWU delegate to provide Cleanaway Operations with details of a post in a private Facebook group that is supporting waste workers' fight against "Big Blue", finding it irrelevant to the union's IBD bid against the company, which a full bench started hearing today.
A FWC full bench led by President Adam Hatcher has granted the SDA coverage in a deal capturing six Subway stores after the union successfully challenged approval of an agreement replacing a 17-year-old deal due to be automatically axed in December.
The Minns Government is seeking expressions of interest for a president and two deputy presidents to head up the State's soon-to-be re-established Industrial Court.
The Queensland IRC has refused a bid by Together Queensland to anonymise or remove a worker's name from her ex-husband's unfair dismissal decision, which refers to her application for an order under the State Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act.
Assistant employment minister Andrew Leigh says the Albanese Government will release an issues paper outlining options for reform of non-compete clauses in April, after the ABS this week published the first official data on the prevalence and extent of restraint clauses.
Paid agent Employee Dismissals has returned a worker's general protections settlement at the eleventh hour, but will still have to face a full bench before appearing in future hearings.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association has hailed the first phase of nurse-to-patient ratios in the public hospitals as a "momentous" change for the State's health system.
Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth says that a KPMG review of the watchdog is supportive of "collaborations" with the Fair Work Commission and other "workplace participants".
A court has criticised a vaping company for its "contemptuous disregard for workplace laws" and ordered it to pay more than $37,000 in penalties for exploiting a temporary visa worker by requiring him to pay back a a portion of his salary under a "cashback" arrangement.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has addressed union leaders on the recent changes to IR laws, stressing their longer-term impacts and the importance of strengthened union delegates' rights.
