Maurice Blackburn's head of employment and industrial law, Josh Bornstein, says he has written a book challenging employers' increasing suppression of free speech to highlight "a major flaw in our democracy" and "a major threat" to workers' rights.
The FWC has granted a supported bargaining authorisation that boosts an IEU push for a 25% pay rise for teachers in more than 100 NSW preschools, while employers told the tribunal the Fair Work Act changes have finally put them in a position to negotiate.
The Federal Court this Friday will hear the HSU's urgent interlocutory application to put its Victorian No 1 branch into administration, after the union filed claims that branch leader Diana Asmar threatened to kill, sack and expose an employee who allegedly blew the whistle on her alleged misappropriation of funds.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has accepted an enforceable undertaking from the TWU after a whistleblower exposed the Victorian branch's practice of retaining resigned members on its register for up to three years, rather than the 28 days allowed under the Registered Organisations Act.
NSW nurses and midwives have defied a tribunal's anti-strike orders, telling its members the State Government has left them with "no choice but to fight".
The HSU will today lodge a Federal Court bid to place its Victorian No 1 branch into administration, as embattled branch secretary Diana Asmar resists calls to stand down and seeks to turn the heat back on the union's national executive in another case heading to court tomorrow.
FWC President Adam Hatcher is seeking feedback before diving in to three TWU test cases seeking minimum standards orders for food and parcel delivery gig workers and owner drivers.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has launched a Federal Court bid to fine and disqualify CFMEU manufacturing division national secretary Michael O'Connor as co-chair of First Super for allegedly using its funds to pay the wages of a union employee.
