The Federal Treasury used a "cabinet sensitive" briefing to urge newTreasurer Scott Morrison to boost labour market flexibility, seizing the opportunity presented by the Productivity Commission's review of Australia's workplace system.
A Fair Work Commissioner was correct in ordering 38 Alcoa MV Portland crew members to sail one-way to Singapore so that the vessel could be sold, even though it meant the loss of their jobs, a full bench has found.
The Labor Party's plan to fight corruption in unions will involve the Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigating the most serious breaches of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act.
Victoria Police have today charged CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka and his deputy Shaun Reardon with blackmail, for allegedly pressuring concrete supplier Boral over its relationship with the builder Grocon.
Federal Court upholds employer's right to nominate doctor; Peak body suspends NUW; CFMEU challenging election exemption ruling; and FWC releases online version of annual report.
Former NUW NSW branch secretary Derrick Belan has rejected legal arguments by his old union that he was largely responsible for its governance problems.
CFMEU national secretary Michael O'Connor has been described in Federal Parliament as the "Sepp Blatter of the union movement" by a Nationals senator in tabling affidavits by three former CFMEU officials who continue to claim they were driven out of the NSW construction branch for whistleblowing.
The CFMEU's mining and energy division says that workers at some Queensland coal mines have engaged in "safety walk-offs" after this week's reports about the re-emergence of black lung disease.
A Queensland parliamentary inquiry will consider licensing and registration of labour hire companies as the state becomes the third jurisdiction to launch investigations into allegations of sham contracting and abuses of visa workers by labour suppliers.
