The Cole Royal Commission's scathing findings against construction industry players, particularly unions, in today's partial release of its findings, has prepared the ground for tomorrow's release, which will focus on reforming the industry.
A full bench of the AIRC has upheld an order for an employer to pay a former employee's travel expenses in attending his unfair dismissal hearings, despite finding he was not entitled to compensation.
The Cole Royal Commission has found that 23 union officials and eight employers or employer organisations might have committed criminal offences in the first findings of the Royal Commission, released today.
Just 5% of AWAs are designed to create new work cultures and systems that boost productivity, while the remainder are focussed on cost-cutting, avoiding regulation and expanding managerial control, according to a new University of Melbourne report.
ACTU releases test case objectives at UK policy conference; Cobar miners walk out over job security; EEOC releases fact sheet on telework as reasonable accommodation; Employers should look for "emotionally intelligent" workers, says research; and AWU and CEPU parties to Aldoga project agreement.
The Navy's former director of psychology has failed today in a Federal Court bid to overturn a finding that it wasn't discriminatory for the Navy to refuse to extend his employment beyond the statutory retirement age of 65.
New research has dispelled claims that a national paid maternity leave scheme would provide "middle class welfare", finding that low-paid women would benefit most from the scheme.
MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin has been elected unopposed for a new four-year term, but he is one of only a handful of MUA leaders not to face a contest in the upcoming poll, which opens in mid-April.
Up to 2,000 manufacturing employees working on the construction of a new aluminum smelter in Queensland will be covered by a project agreement that implements the 36-hour week and puts severance payments into NEST, both of which are firsts for the State.
After being returned for a third term on Saturday, the Carr Government looks likely to continue to be able to push amendments to its IR legislation through the Upper House, as a large crossbench has been retained that gives Labor significant flexibility.
