Expanding on its theme that the wages system is "broken", the ACTU will seek to change workplace laws so workers and unions can bargain "where the power is" across industries and franchised employers, rather than being limited to the enterprise level.
A government department's failure to establish sufficient distance from an 'independent' appeal panel has seen a court reject its claim for legal professional privilege over advice disclosed to an employee.
The FWC has acknowledged its phone system may flummox workers from non-English speaking backgrounds, allowing a "technologically illiterate" cleaner to challenge her dismissal despite filing her application two days' late.
The FWC has confirmed it has no authority to handle disputes about flexible workplace arrangements rejected by employers on "reasonable business grounds" unless specifically empowered to do so by an agreement.
The Federal Court has ordered former HSU national secretary and ex-Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson's employer – a company allegedly run by his wife – to make fortnightly deductions for the payment of $175,550 in legal costs owed to the FWC.
WorkSafe Victoria is "considering its options" after expressing disappointment at Friday's full Federal Court finding that a CFMEU official needed to have a federal entry permit to assist a health and safety representative when invited onto a Victorian construction site.
A full Federal Court has found a CFMEU official called onto a Victorian construction site to assist a health and safety representative is not protected by the state's OHS laws and should have had a federal entry permit.
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.
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.
