A Registered Organisations Commission with ASIC-style powers and penalties will be established within the FWO, using transferring FWC staff, after the Coalition won crucial support from crossbench senators in exchange for greater protection for whistleblowers.
MUA WA branch secretary Chris Cain is facing the loss of his entry permit unless the union can address FWC concerns that he is not a "fit and proper person", largely because of his role in publishing "scab posters", running closed-shop arrangements and allowing unauthorised industrial action.
The FWC has rejected a bid for anti-bullying orders, finding a sales consultant perceived she had been bullied due to the workplace's sales culture and a "significant degree of hype and competition" among her colleagues.
The Turnbull Government has confirmed today that it will re-introduce legislation to require industry super funds to have at least one-third independent directors, including an independent chair.
The Senate in the early hours of this morning passed the Coalition's bill to establish a dedicated Registered Organisations Commission to regulate unions and employer organisations, ahead of the expected resumption of debate on the ABCC legislation today.
The agreements for Australia's largest fast food chains treat workers worse than those at the major retailers, according to the head of a new union that is seeking overturn the IR status quo in both industries.
A court has ordered ANZ, its former chief executive Philip Chronican and two other bank executives, including its chief HR officer, to pay the costs of part of a case brought by an employee who alleged they failed to make reasonable adjustments during her pregnancy.
A businessman who is accusing Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten of conspiring with corporate regulator ASIC while he was the AWU's Victorian branch secretary to stop a company takeover has failed to convince a Supreme Court judge that he should recuse himself.
A new retail and fast food union this morning has SDA members in its sights as it embarks on a recruitment campaign at Coles and Woolworths and considers joining the application to terminate the Coles Supermarkets enterprise agreement, according to founding secretary Josh Cullinan.
