A court has awarded more than $500,000 in penalties to an 80-year-old former pistol club manager paid for more than a decade just $250 a week, from which the employer deducted $100 as rent for the on-site mobile home she lived in with her disabled son.
CFMEU construction and general division administrator Michael Crosby says in a report to Parliament that the union's culture is changing, but success "is not yet uniform" across the country and "serious regulation" is needed to stop bad actors rising again.
The FWC has declined to extend time by 13 seconds for a prison guard sacked for failing to disclose his involvement in a s-xual harassment case that resulted in a young worker receiving $125,000 compensation.
As unions pursue an intractable bargaining bid for BHP's Port Hedland iron ore export operations, the FWC will today hear the company's application for bargaining orders against the ETU, alleging it failed to negotiate in good faith.
Workers who have been s-xually harassed are waiting years for their complaints to be heard because of a surge in cases and a failure by the Federal Government to increase funding to enable the Australian Human Rights Commission to deal with them promptly, according to the ETU.
The FWC has extended time for an employee to lodge her late adverse action claim because she tried twice to file it online within time and twice more soon afterwards, before fronting the registry and lodging it in person.
The Albanese Government should create a new system of occupation-based rather than industry-oriented awards containing only wages and classifications, to tackle the "wage lottery" created by the overly complex regime, according to the HR Nicholls Society.
Former IR barrister David Shoebridge has today been elected as leader of the Federal Greens' parliamentary team, after Larissa Waters stood down due to ill health.
A labour supplier has failed to win costs against the AWU, after claiming that a PALM scheme worker had not authorised the union to file an unfair dismissal claim that it ultimately discontinued.
The FWC has cleared a general manager's late unfair sacking claim to proceed after a law firm's graduate employee advised him to file it in the wrong jurisdiction, finding it "unreasonable and unrealistic" to assume the GM had been in a good position to identify the correct forum.
