Lawyers for Victorian CFMEU leader John Setka and his assistant Shaun Reardon have today challenged the jurisdiction of the Melbourne Magistrates Court to conduct a committal hearing on blackmail charges.
The Turnbull Government’s plan to push its IR bills through the Senate have been thrown into doubt by legal questions over the eligibility of two crossbench senators.
A majority support determination issued on Monday that opened the way for the AMIEU to negotiate a dedicated agreement for 2000 Coles Supermarkets meatworkers returns to the FWC today, as the union prepares to defend a challenge.
The Fair Work Ombudsman pursued accessories to alleged Fair Work Act breaches in nine out of every ten cases it lodged in court last financial year, while three-quarters involved visa-holders, according to its annual report.
After twice refusing to issue bargaining orders against the MUA over its conduct in negotiations with offshore oil and gas vessel operators, the FWC has told it to set the record straight on a string of misrepresentations about the "status, content and character" of bargaining.
The CFMEU says it will appeal to a full Federal Court over a judge's refusal to let it withdraw admissions that it was liable for right of entry contraventions by five officials at three Adelaide construction sites, after the High Court on Friday found the union inappropriately invoked its jurisdiction.
An Australia Post employee who two decades ago won the support of then shadow IR minister John Howard in postal union elections has failed to win his job back after an FWC full bench rejected his appeal.
An IT start-up was justified in sacking a manager because he was prone to "angry outbursts" and failed to invoice customers, resulting in a $35,000 shortfall for the business, the FWC has found.
The chair of Victoria's labour hire inquiry has asked police to consider investigating one of the state's leading poultry producers for advising an employee that his job was in jeopardy if he continued to make "unsubstantiated" allegations about the company.
The FWC has ordered an employer to hand over a confidential report into alleged bullying complaints, board meeting minutes and communications about its investigation to two employees claiming they were bullied in the workplace.
