A FWC full bench has rejected an employer's bid to block protected industrial action, confirming that its invalid notice of employee representational rights didn't knock out a union's protected action ballot application.
The FWC has ordered Immigration and Border Force employees at international airports to return to work today after making an interim decision to suspend protected action.
The CPSU will resume industrial action at international airports from tomorrow, after postponing plans for Easter strikes in response to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's request in the wake of last week's terror attacks in Brussels.
ETU members employed at the NSW electricity distributor Essential Energy have overwhelmingly endorsed protected work bans and stoppages, which they can begin activating next week.
The CPSU has confirmed it will postpone planned industrial action over the Easter long weekend at airports across Australia in the wake of yesterday's Brussels terror attacks.
Journalists at Fairfax Media's flagship publications have walked off the job today after the management unveiled a plan to cut a further 120 full-time equivalent positions.
A tribunal has rejected claims that the sacking of two striking bus drivers constituted discrimination on the basis of their union activity, finding the law doesn't extend to unprotected action.
Power unions say that an application by a NSW Government-owned electricity distributor to terminate its enterprise agreement will led to immediate job losses and pay cuts for hundreds of workers.
The Federal Circuit Court has imposed almost $60,000 in penalties for a "blatant single breach" of the Fair Work Act in which a CFMEU official discarded workers' food from a lunch shed, padlocked the door and said the facility was for union members only.
Border Force and immigration employees will walk off the job for 24 hours on the eve of Easter and might then maintain rolling stoppages across the holiday period, as the CPSU seeks to pressure the federal government to ease restrictions in its bargaining policy in the wake of Defence employees voting down a proposed deal.
