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Wholesale "cut and paste" of party's submissions warrants retrial

A federal court full bench has remitted a case for retrial after a judge facing impending retirement reproduced "significant" portions of a worker's submissions without attribution in an adverse action case and failed to "bring an independent mind" to his determination.


New WA nursing union leader after ousting of Olson

The WA IRC has made interim orders removing the recently reappointed leader of the ANMF's West Australian branch, Mark Olson, paving the way for the union council member who launched the challenge to take over his post.


New FWC members singing from same songsheet

Two new FWC members have invoked Jon Bon Jovi, author Frank Hardy and a former MinterEllison senior partner at a ceremony welcoming them to the tribunal, with one vowing to show respect to "sometimes angry and truculent" parties and the other recalling decades devoted to trying to help people "have a voice and get that voice heard".


CFMEU administrator backs lawful "militancy"

Newly-installed CFMEU construction division administrator Mark Irving KC has told members that "militancy in accordance with the [Fair Work] Act" is not unlawful and that the union will not make political donations or take "positions" at ALP conferences while he is in charge.


New FWC vice president formally welcomed

A welcome ceremony for new FWC Vice President Mark Gibian has heard he is a polite but "devastating" cross-examiner renowned for his calm court manner, while an employer representative said the Albanese Government has removed from the Bar one of the "sharpest tools unions have in their toolbox".


Watt makes first FWC appointments

The Albanese Government has appointed two new members to the FWC, one from each side of the employer-employee divide.


FWC's Gostencnik shifts to federal circuit court

FWC Deputy President Val Gostencnik is among nine new judges appointed to the Federal Circuit and Family Court from today to increase its capacity to hear protection visa and migration cases.


Four CFMEU branches under silk's control, two more possible

FWC GM Murray Furlong has applied to the Federal Court today to have four CFMEU construction and general division branches put into administration, while he has left the door open for two more to go the same way.


Industrial court's "new chapter" opens with renewed powers: Taylor

Justice Ingmar Taylor, the president of the NSW Industrial Court that has been re-established this month by the Minns Labor Government, has told a ceremony to celebrate its rebirth that the recent scrapping of the former government's public sector wages cap reinstates the "broad and unfettered power" to arbitrate disputes bestowed on the institution by the State IR Act's architect, Jeff Shaw.


Claassens to succeed Diamond as RTBU leader

Long-serving RTBU NSW branch leader Alex Claassens is set to become national secretary following the resignation of Mark Diamond, whom the organisation credits with "transforming" it and resisting Coalition attempts to thwart the union movement.


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