Men are using reproductive leave almost as much as women, a Queensland Council of Unions survey of State public sector workers has revealed, one year after the introduction of the entitlement.
Former CFMEU construction and general division Queensland branch leaders Michael Ravbar and Jade Ingham directed membership payments to the state-registered union rather than the federally-registered entity, leaving members without voting power, in a move that might have been intended to "create an impregnable fiefdom into which the national organisation could not reach", administrator Mark Irving KC said today.
The Wood inquiry into the CFMEU's activities in Queensland will put construction division administrator Mark Irving KC on the stand in a hearing this week.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government is removing the former Labor administration's best practice pay and conditions procurement guidelines for new State-funded construction projects, following the release of a State productivity commission report, while the Wood inquiry has appointed new counsel assisting, ahead of its first substantive hearings.
A government department has won an appeal against a finding that a QNMU delegate's decision to send confidential patient information to her home email during a dispute with her unit manager did not constitute misconduct because she did not "deliberately" breach accepted standards.
The Wood inquiry into the CFMEU construction and general division in Queensland has set down two tranches of hearings, as it rebuilds its counsel assisting team after a string of resignations.
A tribunal has upheld an employer's decision to suspend without pay a nurse charged with the digital r-pe of a paediatric patient's mother, until criminal proceedings have been decided.
A tribunal has ordered Queensland Health to re-run its selection process for a midwifery promotion position and remove the successful candidate from her new post, after it failed to give another front-runner a chance to respond to a referee's negative comment.
A former Queensland Office of IR principal inspector has failed to halt disciplinary action over incendiary messages he exchanged with colleagues on the Signal app over plans to close his business unit, including saying he was ready to "b-tch-flog" a female boss and use a piece of "4x2 with rusty nails".
After a withering assessment of the Queensland justice department's performance management processes, the State IRC has over-ruled its refusal to make permanent an acting senior legal officer engaged on successive short-term contracts.
