The Turnbull Government’s plan to push its IR bills through the Senate have been thrown into doubt by legal questions over the eligibility of two crossbench senators.
The CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch spent $13.1 million on legal costs in the 12 months to the end of last year, up more than five-fold from $2.3 million in 2014.
The ABC has rejected claims its new enterprise agreement breached the Turnbull Government's public sector bargaining policy as a "fundamental challenge" to the independence of the national broadcaster.
A majority support determination issued on Monday that opened the way for the AMIEU to negotiate a dedicated agreement for 2000 Coles Supermarkets meatworkers returns to the FWC today, as the union prepares to defend a challenge.
The Fair Work Ombudsman pursued accessories to alleged Fair Work Act breaches in nine out of every ten cases it lodged in court last financial year, while three-quarters involved visa-holders, according to its annual report.
After twice refusing to issue bargaining orders against the MUA over its conduct in negotiations with offshore oil and gas vessel operators, the FWC has told it to set the record straight on a string of misrepresentations about the "status, content and character" of bargaining.
Ahead of Parliament resuming to consider the IR bills that triggered the double dissolution, a key crossbench supporter, Family First Senator Bob Day, has resigned with immediate effect.
The CFMEU says it will appeal to a full Federal Court over a judge's refusal to let it withdraw admissions that it was liable for right of entry contraventions by five officials at three Adelaide construction sites, after the High Court on Friday found the union inappropriately invoked its jurisdiction.
An Australia Post employee who two decades ago won the support of then shadow IR minister John Howard in postal union elections has failed to win his job back after an FWC full bench rejected his appeal.
