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Coal miners returned to work at 11pm last night after a 24-hour wildcat strike in protest against the loss of conditions from award simplification.

A quarter of a million Queensland workers perform unpaid overtime, but only 38% of them get an allowance or time off in lieu to compensate them, according to a new ABS survey.

Employers engaging in protected AWA industrial action - such as lockouts - against employees are immune from the statutory ban on applying duress to employees, the Federal Court has ruled.

Two employees who refused offers of alternative employment when their employer merged with another company have failed to convince the NSW IRC that they were unfairly dismissed.

A full bench of the High Court will this afternoon in Brisbane hear a crucial test case on whether awards carry over when work is outsourced.

In an important victory for the future of industry superannuation funds, a full bench of the IRC has ruled that building awards can specify which funds employers have to contribute to for non-union as well as union workers.

In a landmark ruling on casual employment, a Federal Court full bench has found two regularly-rostered workers to be casuals because they were engaged on that basis.

The LHMU has used the Workplace Relations Act's anti-coercion provisions to win an interlocutory injunction restraining Coca-Cola Amatil from contracting out up to 50 jobs at its Clayton warehouse in Melbourne.

While Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith was this morning extolling the potential benefits of IR life under the Constitution's corporations power, one of Australia's leading labour lawyers was issuing a warning that heading down that path was unlikely to reduce the existing system's cost or complexity.

The labour hire industry will know in a little more than three months whether it will face the threat of hostile new regulations in New South Wales, after the State Government revealed the membership and terms of reference of its industry taskforce.