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The National Construction Industry Forum has today unanimously endorsed a reform blueprint for the building and construction industry that pushes for the Albanese Government to give the FWC and FWO dispute resolution and enforcement powers.
The NSW IRC last year received 36% more applications than in 2023, while cases finalised dropped by 16%, according to its latest annual report, which takes in the first six months of its renewed powers.
NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says a Bill providing for the CFMEU State branch's mining and energy division and its manufacturing division to disamalgamate will guard against threats or "adverse conduct", while avoiding overlapping eligibility rules for at least a decade.
The FWC is introducing reforms to tackle a blowout in general protections claims and the paid agents using them as a "business model", while it is also incorporating AI into major aspects of its work, according to its President, Adam Hatcher.
The FWC has found a former CFMEU construction division official "removed" by administrator Mark Irving KC is fit to hold office in a union and act as a bargaining representative, five months after it cleared him to take up a part-time role with the ETU.
Silk Liam Kelly, who has a strong background in commercial law, and two junior counsel have been appointed to assist Commissioner Stuart Wood KC's inquiry into the CFMEU construction and general division's Queensland branch
FWC GM Murray Furlong has reminded the Albanese Government of recommendations to legislate to reverse onerous regulatory requirements imposed by the former Coalition Government on registered organisations that go beyond what is required of listed companies, in response to a request for productivity-lifting initiatives ahead of last month's economic reform roundtable.
An employment service worker caught out by a legal technicality has won more time to challenge his sacking, which he links to an allegedly "inappropriate" workplace conversation after a Sorry Day event.
A FWC full bench has quashed a finding that a government-owned First Nations accommodation service dismissed a manager by breaking a "promise" to convert her non-continuing contract arrangement to permanent employment once she obtained Australian citizenship.
In a decision illustrating the challenges of managing high-performing employees, a member of Woolworths' e-commerce team has failed to persuade the FWC that her manager and supervisor bullied her during a tense period sparked by receiving a lower annual rating than usual.
