One of the CFMEU's most controversial officials has had his state entry permit revoked, after an IR tribunal full bench used new laws to revisit his lengthy criminal history and consider threats last year to "rip out the heart" of a sub-contractor's representative.
In a revealing decision about the atmosphere at some FWC conciliation conferences, a tribunal member has declined to recuse himself from further hearing a matter despite accepting that a teenage worker and her father "may have taken umbrage" at his tone when expressing frustration at their propensity to stray off-topic.
The FWC has castigated a union delegate for abusing its anti-bullying processes to "settle personal scores" with managers, branding it "completely inappropriate".
The FWC has varied a NSWNMA staff deal after the majority voted to accept pay rises "not reliant" on record increases recently awarded to the State's nurses, with the tribunal also refusing an anonymous objector's bid for a public hearing.
New ACTU pitch for vehicle allowances; Delayed CPI move for expense-related allowances; Further reporting extension for WFH inquiry; and Labour law conference seeking papers.
A contentious random drug and alcohol testing regime can go ahead at Opal Packaging after a full Federal Court found both employer and union erred and in turn led the primary judge astray by focusing on who benefited from a requirement that the "status quo remain" in their dispute resolution procedure, while ignoring the rest of the clause.
The FWO is demonstrating an "appropriately cautious" approach to pursuing employers under new wage theft laws, the Closing Loopholes review has found, while a senator has separately told a parliamentary inquiry that the bar for prosecution might be too high.
The AEU's Victorian branch says an Allan Government offer to lift public school teachers' pay by up to 32% over four years will put them ahead of their NSW counterparts and is "worthy" of members' endorsement.
The Ai Group is asking the FWC's expert panel to restrict pay rises for minimum wage and award-reliant workers to an inflation-lagging 3.9%, branding the ACTU's revised claim for a 6% increase "reckless".
