Health union VAHPA is holding a special general meeting to discuss its proposed merger with HACSU, according to a rank and file group concerned about an alleged failure to consult members.
A Victoria Police special taskforce has charged former CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka for allegedly sending threatening emails to the CFMEU's administrator, while an ACCC probe has prompted John Holland to ditch deals that limit its choice of labour hire providers.
FWC president Adam Hatcher has fleshed out procedural reforms for general protections claims involving dismissals, which have surged to 57% above the three-year average in the three months to September, while he has also foreshadowed the next areas he will target.
A detailed analysis of the "principal purpose test" for assessing award coverage has led the FWC to find a salesperson earning more than $200,000 a year is not covered by the commercial sales award.
The FWC is considering legal action against former senior officers of the CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch after finding they diverted more than $300,000 in member's funds to re-elect now-ousted HSU leader Diana Asmar.
Eighteen months after retail giant Aldi sought to insert a clause in a proposed agreement to render it immune to same-job, same-pay applications, it is facing a SJSP claim that the SDA says could lift on-hire warehouse workers' base pay by almost a third.
A FAAA bid to overhaul flight attendants' modern award based on gender-based undervaluation and changes to the nature of their work over the past two decades is seeking to boost pay rates by up to 62%, to a level beyond what some are paid under their agreements.
BHP's in-house labour hire company has been fined $15,000 and ordered to pay 85 production employees between $800 and $2400 each in compensation for unreasonably requiring them to work across Christmas holidays.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a casual early childhood educator axed from her workplace roster because she failed to fill out a child safety declaration while off the job in a remote, cyclone-afflicted area in China.
The Federal Government's long service leave scheme for the black coal industry has won special leave from the High Court to challenge a full Federal Court judgment that it says has significant implications for the LSL eligibility of shotfiring and explosive services workers.
