UK employers might have to pay workers up to eight weeks compensation if they unreasonably refuse a flexible work request, under changes proposed by the Starmer Government.
The FWC has approved a CFMEU-brokered enterprise agreement despite finding the union had no eligibility to represent the industrial interests of workers covered by the deal and no authority to negotiate it.
UWU national president Jo Schofield has launched her own election campaign, after secretary Tim Kennedy threw his support behind a rank and file member for president.
The FWO's alleged failure to meet the "high standard" expected of model litigants is not a factor to be weighed when deciding whether to impose costs orders, the Federal Court ruled today.
CFMEU construction division administrator Mark Irving last year "counselled" then Victorian branch secretary Zach Smith for his "serious error of judgement" in permitting an organiser to meet with underworld figure and "fixer" Mick Gatto, after FWC general manager raised concerns.
An emergency care flight service has withdrawn objections to an ANMF protected action ballot of nurses and midwives, and the FWC has found no reason to block it, after the union inserted a caveat to protect patient safety.
The Queensland Teachers' Union's federal entity has entered an enforceable undertaking with the FWC after failing to conduct elections for its branch council and executive, despite numerous prompts from the regulator.
The CEPU's South Australian branch has failed to convince Commissioner Chris Platt in his final ruling before retirement that an employer breached its good faith bargaining obligations by putting a single-enterprise agreement to a vote after the union sought a supported bargaining authorisation.
The FWC has ruled that a former CFMEU organiser is a fit and proper person to work for another union despite her "spur of the moment" decision to confront an investigative journalist that resulted in her dismissal.
