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Maximum fine required to promote adherence to industrial bargains: Judge

"Industrial anarchy" could reign if parties refuse to honour industrial bargains, a Federal Court judge has found in requiring Queensland Rail and its subsidiaries to pay the maximum statutory fines for their "flagrant" breaches of major change consultation requirements in their agreements.

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