Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has today committed to introducing new laws that will enable bullying victims to seek rapid redress through the Fair Work Commission.
NSW public sector employees stand to lose or have reduced a range of longstanding benefits, including shift penalties, annual leave loading and leave entitlements, under an O'Farrell Government application before the NSW IRC.
The ALAEA says FWA has cleared the way for it to pursue its bid to change its rules to cover a new category of unlicensed aircraft maintenance engineers at Qantas, after a full bench today rejected an application for orders to stop it representing the workers.
Fair Work Building and Construction chief executive Leigh Johns has challenged those who say the inspectorate should have intervened in the Grocon Supreme Court proceedings to identify the powers it could have relied upon, while the main players are about to head back for more talks with FWA President, Justice Iain Ross.
Grocon Constructors has shown the Victorian Supreme Court graphic footage of CFMEU protesters pushing back police horses in Melbourne's CBD this morning in its successful bid to extend a ban on union officials coming within 50 metres of the Emporium site.
Queensland's Newman Government has passed legislation to void public sector agreement clauses that provide for job security and regulate contracting-out, give greater scope for lawyers to appear in the State IRC and remove administrative duties from Commission President David Hall.
A tribunal has ordered a man to pay $8000 in compensation to an assembly line worker for sexually harassing him over a period of four months, but their employer escaped liability because it had taken sufficient steps to comply with its policies.
NSW Greens IR spokesperson David Shoebridge hopes an administrator for the troubled state-registered HSU East branch could be appointed as soon as today after the passage of legislation through the NSW Parliament.
Taking only "embryonic" steps towards reaching an agreement; relying on employer inaction rather than its own initiative; and naming the wrong employer after a restructure were all reasons for FWA's rejection of protected action ballot applications by the CFMEU in Queensland.
A Qantas flight attendant's bad language and agitated behaviour provided grounds for her dismissal, but it might have been different if the conduct had occurred on a building site, FWA has found.
