The Federal Court has found that a company that sacked a woman because she could not work late due to childcare responsibilities has breached the Workplace Relations Act's discrimination provisions.
The market is the key driver of workplace reform in the coal mining industry and the law "largely irrelevant", according to the national legal officer for one of the major opponents of WR Minister Peter Reith's IR legislation - the CFMEU (mining & energy division).
The Greater Dandenong City Council has lodged an appeal against the Federal Court's recent finding that it breached the Workplace Relations Act's freedom of association provisions when it outsourced its homecare work.
BHP has denied union suggestions that it is considering using "scab" labour in the latest coal bargaining dispute, but has refused to rule out lockouts or comment on whether it had contacted private security firms.
After seven months of strikes and lockouts, employees at Joy Manufacturing's strife-torn Moss Vale site in NSW are set to resume work - but with one obstacle remaining.
The Federal Government might still have to hand over secret documents revealing its plans for the 1998 waterfront dispute, after a Federal Court full bench found it had the power to decide the issue.
An IRC full bench has awarded 25,000 South Australian teaching and support staff a 14% pay increase over 40 months under a compulsory arbitration, plus two weeks paid maternity/adoption leave.
Manufacturing giant Southcorp is today attempting to use the Workplace Relations Act's anti-coercion provisions to stop Campaign 2000 picketing and strike action at two of its sites.
