The federal secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers' Association, Steve Purvinas, has dropped his court case against members of his executive after they shelved moves to curtail his role.
The FAAA has extended the tentacles of its SJSP test case against Qantas labour suppliers, bringing an application against a third labour hire company, while the parallel test case against BHP Coal has been pushed back after unions sought extra time for their submissions.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has appointed former Justice Department secretary Greg Wilson to examine the State's construction sector and help eradicate its "rotten culture", including by boosting its ability to weed out criminal activity and protect whistleblowers.
The ACTU told its employees yesterday they should work from home due to the prospect of protest rallies by supporters of the CFMEU's construction and general division.
The Labor Party's national executive has this afternoon resolved to indefinitely suspend the CFMEU construction and general division's affiliations with the NSW, Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian branches of the party and to refuse political donations from them.
The FWO will investigate whether the CFMEU's construction and general division's making of agreements has been infected by adverse action, coercion, misrepresentation or other unlawful conduct, after a request from Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
A FWC full bench has ruled on the agreed terms to be included in an intractable bargaining workplace determination under revised Closing Loopholes 2 Act criteria.
The Federal Court has this afternoon rejected a Qantas bid for a finding that flight crew union the AIPA unreasonably withheld permission to allocate newly-recruited pilots to its A380 super-jumbos.
A FWC presidential member is today training the CPSU and the FWO in using an interest-based approach to employee consultations, using the Collaborative Approaches program spearheaded by current Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth when she served as a deputy president of the tribunal.
The ASU and group of Victorian councils are lining up to oppose an attempt by the CFMEU's construction and general division Victorian branch to represent local government workers in enterprise bargai
