The NSW Government's urgent tandem bid today to pause industrial action that is causing chaos across the Sydney train network will be heard by the FWC in two expedited hearings tomorrow and on Wednesday, while President Adam Hatcher has recommended that unions suspend industrial action to aid a possible resolution.
Corruption investigator Geoffrey Watson SC is recommending a criminal trial against ousted CFMEU construction and general division NSW branch secretary Darren Greenfield and civil proceedings against his leadership team and a lawyer over an alleged "extraordinary" transfer of $3 million to help him and his son defend "minor" charges.
The Federal Court has rejected embattled HSU No 1 Victorian branch secretary Diana Asmar's bid to stay FWC general manager Murray Furlong's prosecution of her for alleged "cashbacks", after she failed to establish a criminal trial is "on the cards".
McDonald's has told a FWC full bench on the first day of a hearing tackling the SDA's test bid for a multi-employer supported bargaining authorisation covering 18 SA franchisees that it strongly opposes the application and considers it unnecessary.
ACTU president Michele O'Neil has accused Nippon Paper's Opal subsidiary of abusing its power by locking out about 300 workers from a Latrobe Valley mill for three weeks and counting, after seven CFMEU members took six hours of protected action.
CFMEU construction division administrator Mark Irving KC has announced a new probe into violence, threats and menacing conduct in Queensland, just as the union confirms the sudden exit of the state branch's recently-installed executive director.
In a decision that highlights the primacy of open justice in the workplace tribunal, the FWC has rejected a bid to permanently suppress a proposed union's "rambling" and "intemperate" written submission that makes scandalous allegations against the ANMF and its leaders.
A former organiser who claims the UWU sacked her for exacerbating post-amalgamation "tensions" by pushing for a staff agreement has won a three-month extension to file her second unfair dismissal application, after a full bench found her first one barred as she lodged it while pursuing an adverse action case.
The Federal Court has refused to make interim orders staving off RTBU Victorian branch resolutions directing its locomotive division to stop doing business with former divisional secretary-turned-consultant Marc Marotta, who is also servicing a breakaway union urging members to make the switch.
