The Heydon Royal Commission has decided not to recall former HSU national secretary Kathy Jackson as a witness before it delivers its final report at the end of the year.
Public servants employed by 10 of the largest APS agencies will walk off the job tomorrow to protest what the CPSU says is the federal government's "strategic" hard-line approach to bargaining.
Festering tensions within the Queensland branch of the CFMEU's construction and general division have been exposed by a secret recording from July this year that has been released by the Heydon Royal Commission.
A long-running dispute between the meatworkers' union and Teys Australia over pay and conditions at the company's Beenleigh abattoir has taken another turn, with the Fair Work Commission agreeing to hold off on arbitration until the Federal Court rules on the latest in a series of legal challenges by the company.
Labor has used parliamentary privilege to call on the federal government to sack FWC Vice President Michael Lawler, accusing him of using stolen money and "rorting taxpayers" by taking paid sick leave while advocating for his partner, former HSU national secretary Kathy Jackson.
The CFMEU construction and general division's Queensland branch secretary, Michael Ravbar, directed that security cameras be covered before documents were removed from the union's offices last year, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today.
The federal government has introduced legislation to outlaw "payment for visa" activities and will give the immigration minister the discretion to cancel the visas of those involved in the practice.
The SA Government has reached a "no strike" agreement with three unions to ensure industrial action is not an obstacle to building new submarines in Adelaide for the Australian Navy.
New Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says his government will seek to reassure workers that any IR change won't threaten their conditions, while the AiG is urging the new administration to "get on the front foot" and reshape regulation to suit 21st Century workplaces.
