The ETU has expressed outrage at an FWO enforceable undertaking requiring a company to donate $50,000 to a migrant community charity and overhaul its recruitment practices after workers from the Philippines were threatened with dismissal if they joined a union.
The CFMEU and five of its officials have been fined $132,000 for "disrespectful" right of entry contraventions at three construction sites in Adelaide in 2014.
The High Court has reserved its decision in the MUA's challenge to Federal government determinations seeking to exempt some offshore oil and gas crews from holding permanent or temporary work visas.
The FWC is inviting comment on consultation schedules for the plain English redrafting of specific clauses in the pharmacy industry award, standard and common clauses in all awards, and the redrafting of the clerks, hospitality, restaurant and retail awards.
The embattled FSU is facing further legal action as its former national industrial officer, Andrew McKeown, pursues adverse action and bullying claims against the union and its former national secretary.
The CFMEU has lost an appeal to have secondary boycott proceedings over alleged bans on Boral delayed until after the hearing of blackmail charges against union leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon.
Maurice Blackburn employees are voting on whether to take industrial action over protracted agreement negotiations, as the ASU alleges the legal firm withdrew from talks after telling it to "come back when you agree".
The FWC has recommended a Perth man working on the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin be paid a living-away-from-home allowance despite renting locally when he was employed.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash will lead the push to re-establish the ABCC and to create a specialist regulator of unions, once the Federal parliament resumes on August 30.
