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As Pizza Hut chief operations officer Chris Leslie pursues McDonald's for more than $100,000 allegedly owed to him after his retrenchment, the burger giant has hit back, seeking $240,000 and claiming it sacked him over his work for a rival.

An FWC full bench will today hear aviation services company Aerocare's appeal against the tribunal's rejection of its proposed enterprise agreement.

The Turnbull Government is poised to introduce legislation to force greater disclosure from union-related funds including redundancy funds, which have about $2 billion in assets.

The NSW Teachers Federation says a dispute settlement reached with the Department of Education will provide at least 2630 permanent jobs for casual and temporary public school teachers, with Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon telling Federal Parliament the deal underlines "the advantages of union density".

A Federal Labor Government would require that workers who vote on a new enterprise agreement be representative of those who will eventually be covered by it.

Today's High Court ruling doesn't set a precedent for suppression of workplace protests outside of the specific circumstances of Tasmanian forestry operations, according to Adelaide University Professor of Law Andrew Stewart.

The majority of a full High Court has today found that parts of Tasmania's laws against workplace protests in forestry and related areas are invalid because they offend the Constitution's implied freedom of political communication.

In a landmark judgment upholding a casual employee's right to convert to permanency on a "like for like" basis, the Federal Court has concluded it should fine Toll more than $40,000 and order it to compensate a freight handler for refusing to grant his request for full-time employment from May last year.

Integrity" bill might reach Senate today; and Flying Kangaroo downgraded workers to avoid blue with ASU, says FWC.

A company that allegedly told a 62-year old salesperson that he was too old, too deaf and was "hobbling around" with a "broken back" he would use to make a workers compensation claim has been ordered to pay $15,000 for "pain, suffering and humiliation" as part of a larger damages payout for age and disability discrimination.