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The FSU will tomorrow seek an interlocutory injunction against the Commonwealth Bank's proposed transfer of employees to a subsidiary, claiming it breaches the Trade Practices Act's misleading and deceptive conduct provisions.

The managing partner of a national employment law firm has outlined a nine-point checklist to help employers avoid the pitfalls of the recent Federal Court full bench transmission of business rulings in Gribbles and Amcor.

An employee sacked via a text message on his mobile phone has taken an unfair dismissal claim to the NSW IRC.

The NSW IRC has upheld the State Police Commissioner's summary dismissal of an officer who assaulted an intoxicated man while he was in custody.

The Victorian Government has introduced legislation for the first overhaul of the State's child employment laws in thirty years.

NSW Premier Bob Carr has told the State's unions that absorbing the Department of IR into a new Commerce super-ministry wouldn't blunt the DIR's effectiveness.

Industrial disputes over severance entitlements when employers in-source functions are likely to escalate, following an AIRC full bench ruling.

The AMWU in Victoria is talking up its progress in the Campaign 2003 bargaining round, but the AIG remains confident that manufacturers are still refusing to consider key planks of the union's claim.

A senior member of the AIRC has made it clear that a lack of funds is not an acceptable excuse in unfair dismissal applications where directions haven't been complied with and no attempt made to seek an extension of time.

A full bench of the NSW IRC has flowed-on the federal reasonable hours test-case provision to state-covered employees, giving them the right to refuse to work unreasonably long hours.