Reducing penalty rates, increasing rostering flexibility and boosting the ability of employers to make agreements directly with employees are at the top of employer groups' IR wishlists for the July 2 federal election.
The Federal Court will hold a one-day inquiry on May 26 that will decide whether Victorian public sector union leader Karen Batt will face her first election challenge in 20 years.
The leadership teams of the the domestic and international divisions of the flight attendants' union have been ousted in ballots declared today by the AEC.
The HSU's NSW branch says it will clear the debt generated by its corrupt former leadership within two-and-a-half-years, thanks in part to an aggressive savings strategy and a new recruitment focus in aged care and private health, as it prepares to reveal a substantial donation to the ALP to fight the Coalition's "draconian" attack on unions.
The Fair Work Commission is reviewing exemptions that permit entities other than the Australian Electoral Commission to conduct registered organisations' elections.
Proceedings brought by FSU national secretary Fiona Jordan against her union have returned to the Fair Work Commission, as an internal power struggle continues.
The flight attendants' union has left itself open to a civil penalty after the FWC's general manager refused to extend time for it to lodge documents for its elections.
A candidate seeking to run a team against the current international flight attendants union leadership will be given a copy of the union's membership contact details if she agrees to undertakings, an FWC full bench has ruled.
