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Alan Goldberg, the barrister seen as the mastermind behind the landmark Dollar Sweets case, has died, aged 75.

Labor has turned to two MPs with strong union backgrounds to support Brendan O'Connor in the shadow employment and workplace relations portfolios.

Scott takes over as WA IRC chief commissioner; Volunteers win delay on CFA agreement ballot; Baker's resolve to dismiss apprentice without warning unfair.

Sydney University Professor of Gender and Employment Relations Marian Baird and IR consultant Theresa Moltoni have been recognised in the Queen's birthday honours list.

Fair Work Commission President Iain Ross has been dragged into Victoria's firefighters' dispute, after state parliament heard he gave assurances about the proposed agreement for the Country Fire Authority.

Left-wing think tank the Australia Institute has launched a new centre that will research and publish on the workplace and labour markets, overseen by an economist who has advised Canada’s auto union for the past two decades.

The NUW and MEAA are among the first unions to change their rules to accept no or low-fee community and associate members since the ACTU's call to transform their membership models by adopting "radical thinking".

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has today criticised CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch leader John Setka for reportedly comparing the Coalition's "attack" on the union and its members to that of Hitler's Germany, after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called on the Labor leader to "publicly disown" the union secretary.

The CFMEU says the construction watchdog prosecuted its national secretary, Michael O'Connor, on the basis of flimsy evidence, in an effort to politically embarrass his brother, shadow workplace relations minister Brendan O'Connor.

ACTU television commercial highlights penalty rates, internships; New executive director for HR Nicholls Society; Alleged ISIS-sympathiser's dismissal case in FWC tomorrow; FWBC warns of fines for construction workers attending CFMEU mass meeting "without permission"; Re-run for botched Federal Police union election; "Unfinished business" in quest for safe rates, TWU council hears; and Sharing economy" a misnomer, TWU forum hears.