The CPSU has until 4pm today to file material on whether the FWC has the power to make good faith bargaining orders against Employment Minister Michaelia Cash, as it prepares for a mass public service strike next week.
The FWC has granted the ASU's scope order application for three agreements after a "long and contested" disagreement over the issue between a Brisbane water company and unions.
Victoria's former minister for emergency services, Jane Garrett, says she will make a formal complaint alleging bullying by the state secretary of the United Firefighters Union, Peter Marshall.
The MUA is challenging three recent FWC approvals of agreements that had been negotiated directly between large offshore services companies and small numbers of employees, including one in which a Commission member expressed "serious concerns about the authenticity of the bargaining process".
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today introduced the Coalition's bill to protect the role of Victorian Country Fire Authority's volunteer firefighters and reintroduced the ABCC and registered organisations bills that were the triggers for him calling a double dissolution election.
The High Court has today ruled invalid a federal government determination that exempted some offshore oil and gas workers from requirements to hold permanent or temporary work visas.
The SDA says it will push harder to ensure that agreements contain sufficient safeguards to pass the better off overall test, in the wake of an FWC full bench's embarrassing rejection of the enterprise deal it negotiated for Coles supermarkets.
