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Gender reporting requirements "red tape"?; and Bandt bill seeks greater disability, NESB employment.

Changes to greenfields agreement provisions in the bill expected to be introduced by Employment Minister Eric Abetz next week will cut negotiation time from five months to three for major projects and cut business administration costs by $14.4 million a year, according to his department's regulation impact statement.

The union covering Hunter Valley coal haulage drivers who are planning to strike next week is ignoring BHP Billiton threats of potential third party legal action and will instead today write to the mining giant to seek its support in resolving the dispute with rail operator Aurizon.

The FWBC is individually prosecuting more than 75 building workers for breaches committed when they allegedly participated in a strike in February last year at Perth's children's hospital construction site.

A court has today delivered a "wake-up call" to Toyota Material Handling and its HR department for breaches of IR laws that included making a false declaration to the Fair Work Ombudsman, drawing to a close five years of litigation that included a full Federal Court ruling on a time limit that had threatened to derail the case.

The obligation for employers to let employees bring a support person with them to any discussions that could lead to dismissal does not extend to allowing that person to be an advocate, a FWC full bench has confirmed in overturning a ruling by Commissioner John Ryan that an executive director was constructively dismissed.

The Federal Court has rejected a claim by Qantas flight crew that the airline breached its enterprise agreements when it didn't consider them for vacancies that would have required it to train them at a cost of up to $113,000 per pilot.

In a split decision, a Federal Court full court has held that the Fair Work Commission can grant an extension to the 30-day time limit for taking protected industrial action even where the application is made after that period has expired.

The Federal Court has found that shifting seasonal workers to a new employer after they'd worked 40 hours a week was a "sham" arrangement to avoid paying overtime.

The Fair Work Commission has ruled that Subclass 457 visa holders cannot make legally binding employment contracts with employers that are not registered to sponsor them under the Migration Act.