The Federal Court has forced abbatoir operator G&K O'Connor to stop paying bare award rates to 30 employees, after finding it might be unlawfully applying duress to persuade them to sign AWAs.
A court has set out what constitutes "reasonable steps" to prevent sexual harassment, while ordering an employer to pay $24,000 in damages, plus costs, for the harassment of a cleaner by another employee.
The radical employment arrangements for Impulse Airlines' flight attendants look set to end, after Impulse's labour supplier today acceded to a FAAA bid to bring the workers under award regulation.
The IRC has upheld the retrenchment of an employee, despite the employer failing to consult because a previous redundancy announcement had led to sabotage.
Telstra's 30,800 award-based employees have voted up four new agreements, moving away from a company-wide deal that was due to expire later this month.
The President of the NSW IRC, Justice Lance Wright, has directed the Police Association of NSW and the State's Police Service into further talks, after police this morning began implementing work bans.
Trade union leaders will be among the mourners tomorrow at the funeral of former ACTU president Cliff Dolan, who died at home on Thursday night after a long illness. He was 80.
More than two years after it came to power, the Tasmanian ALP has got an IR bill through the State's Upper House, but it's a gutted version of the original.
Just six months after the IRC terminated the bargaining periods covering Caltex's oil refinery in Kurnell, Sydney, the AWU is again gearing up for protected action.
