CFMEU construction and general division administrator Michael Crosby has expelled former Victorian branch secretary John Setka for his alleged "shameful" misappropriation of union revenue and diversion of it to his own companies, but the former leader rejects the claims as "absolute bullshit and lies".
The construction industry opposes the CFMEU administrator's call for the Albanese Government to lift the ban on multi-employer bargaining in the sector and goes further, saying the provisions should be expunged from the Fair Work Act because they undermine the statute's focus on enterprise-based bargaining.
As Qantas moves to outsource and offshore about 850 corporate jobs, including HR, finance and marketing roles, in league with accelerating its use of AI, the ACTU has welcomed Federal Government plans for "world-leading" AI standards legislation but says more is needed to protect exposed workers.
The CFMEU administration breaches ILO conventions in multiple ways and has reduced the construction and general division to a union in name only, according to new analysis by a labour law scholar and former national legal officer with the union.
A full Federal Court has upheld a finding that the former general manager of a health and aged care labour hire company is entitled to a $366,000 profit-share, but has quashed a costs order arising from the employer's abandoned claim that she breached a post-employment restraint.
The FWC has rejected a SDA bid to force Woolworths to preserve generous site-closure redundancy payments negotiated before the supermarket giant scrapped plans to shut a major distribution centre.
Two drivers banned by Uber from picking up passengers at Melbourne Airport but otherwise able to continue their work on the platform have not been sidelined from their jobs, so they can't pursue remedies under the Fair Work Act's deactivation provisions, a FWC full bench ruled today.
The Albanese Government should revisit the Fair Work Act's prohibition on multi-employer bargaining in the construction industry, because it is a major hurdle to tackling corruption and misconduct in the sector, the CFMEU's administrator said today, advocating for industry-wide rather than solely union-focused reform.
The NSW IRC has not encountered its federal counterpart's AI-driven surge in cases, but is expecting to face its own challenges as it deals with a rise in individual matters that are likely to involve a substantial number of self-represented parties, according to tribunal president Ingmar Taylor.
Uneven access to working from home is creating a "two-tiered system", with low-waged workers less likely to work remotely, the ASU told the Senate inquiry into the Greens WFH bill, while the Productivity Commissioner says the cost of remote work for employers can be "difficult to quantify".
