A former people and culture GM has lost his novel interim reinstatement bid after alleging his employer victimised him for raising a series of s-x discrimination issues, accusing him of not being "a good cultural fit" and telling him the company does not need to do things "by the book".

After its CFMEU raid today, Victoria Police has revealed that its investigation relates to drug trafficking in addition to the "secret commissions" or "kickbacks", and has charged two of the five men it arrested.

The ACTU has stopped conducting a survey of union officials on their inflation expectations that it previously provided to the RBA, because of its influence on the central bank's interest rates decisions, but says it is committed to developing a better methodology.

A FWC-commissioned survey shows that 40% of applicants are using AI to prepare and manage their cases, as the tribunal's president revealed he will mandate disclosure of the technology from October 20 for "individual rights matters".

Victoria Police has raided the CFMEU's headquarters in Melbourne this morning, taking five people into custody.

An executive on a major Victorian Government infrastructure project who accepted a large severance package could not "seriously" contend he departed reluctantly when he elected to pocket a $50,000 payment instead of taking part in a further redeployment process, the FWC has found.

A FWC full bench has refused to overturn the dismissal of a veteran AFL umpire who frog-marched a trespassing jogger from a training session, in a significant decision "reconciling" the tribunal's different approaches to whether employers have valid reasons to sack workers variously involved in physical altercations and policy breaches.

A FWC full bench has reassured a union that majority support determinations are still a possibility in circumstances where apprentices form a "subgroup" at group training organisations.

Extend family and domestic violence provisions to include perpetrators beyond immediate family, weigh whether to expand the employee-like worker framework to include journalists and performers, and form a tripartite committee of unions and employers to report annually on emerging IR issues, the Closing Loopholes review's final report recommends.

The Federal Court has granted property advisory business Savills a 20-year suppression order, after finding publication of stayed sexual harassment and discrimination allegations would undermine the effectiveness of its earlier orders.