The Federal Court has issued an interim injunction that restricts the CFMEU to convening no more than one union meeting a week for building workers engaged by subcontractors on a Commonwealth Games construction project on Queensland's Gold Coast.
A court has levied a fine of more than $270,000 on a company that made an employee work 180 unpaid hours as an intern, and has also imposed a $8160 fine and three-year injunction on its director, who was already bound by an enforceable undertaking.
The FWC has backed aluminium giant Alcoa's right under its new uniform policy to bar two employees at its WA alumina mines who are also AWU delegates from wearing shirts that bear the union's logo in the workplace.
A straddle driver who lost his job as a result of an automation-driven restructure at Patrick Stevedores' Port Botany container terminal has won his job back after the FWC ruled his dismissal was not a genuine redundancy.
Before Holden decided that insufficient government support meant it must shut down manufacturing operations, it could not have asked more from unions and employees, who agreed on a survival plan with a four-year wage freeze and 16-minutes-a-day extra working time, the company's executive director of HR told the recent ALERA conference.
A full Federal Court majority has confirmed the AWU unlawfully coerced Esso Australia during a long-running bargaining dispute and breached anti-strike orders, but has raised questions about the Commission's authority to impose orders for service of documents.
An FWC full bench has confirmed that the Rail Tram and Bus Union is not entitled to represent the industrial interests of members covered by a new agreement for the maintenance contractor serving Fortescue Metals Group's rail operations in the Pilbara.
The Federal Court has found that the CFMEU unlawfully coerced construction joint venturers when it threatened to take industrial action on a "national scale" and bring about "Armageddon" if they sought to enforce an anti-strike order.
Victoria's Country Fire Authority has "serious concerns" about a Fair Work Commission "final recommendation" that seeks to break a bargaining deadlock that threatens to become a political crisis for the Andrews Labor Government.
Majority support clauses might reduce the administrative burden of juggling multiple modern awards but risks could outweigh the benefits, according to research on employer and employee perceptions commissioned by the FWC as part of its four-yearly review of modern awards.
