Executive recruitment company DHR International has failed to temporarily shut down a "highly critical" anonymous blog allegedly run by its former Australian chief executive until a court determines an injurious falsehood and misleading or deceptive conduct claim.
The CFMEU is vicariously liable for a senior official's adverse action when he threatened to put a company out of business, the Federal Court has found.
Australia's largest poultry processor will employ a HR specialist to oversee a new grievance hotline, investigate complaints and report them to the FWO and will place HR support workers at every processing plant as part of a "proactive compliance deed" that also requires it to set aside $500,000 to reimburse underpaid workers.
BlueScope Steel says that steelmaking will continue in Port Kembla after "game-changing" cost savings of $200 million a year negotiated with employees, unions and the NSW Government.
The FWBC's annual report shows it has dramatically increased litigation on coercion and right of entry matters since it shifted focus under the leadership of Nigel Hadgkiss.
A tribunal has upheld the dismissal of a long-serving employee who campaigned against the axing of two of his employer's facilities, after accepting that his past as a whistleblower probably played no part in the decision to sack him.
The AEC is calling on the Federal Court to conduct an inquiry into a suspended Federal Police Association election and to let it re-start the process, arguing undelivered ballot papers, administrative errors and defective nominations following zoning changes have breached election rules.
Former Victorian AWU branch secretary Cesar Melhem has denied directing a subordinate not to send a "side deal" with a cleaning company to the union's national office, as end of the Heydon Royal Commission's hearings looms.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the alleged cartel behaviour identified by the Heydon Royal Commission in the ACT construction sector might have revealed a way to investigate "additional restrictive behaviour" in the IR arena.
