The Federal Court has this morning ordered former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson to pay about $458,000 in compensation and fines for inappropriate spending during his reign.
The NUW's troubled NSW branch faces a complete $250,000 write-down on its investment in a failed media company, Manic Times Pty Ltd, while the union's national secretary has confirmed it proceeded with a fundraiser that came under fire in the Heydon Royal Commission.
The High Court has denied special leave for a Roy Morgan research subsidiary to appeal a full Federal Court ruling that upheld penalties against it for sham contracting.
A discrimination tribunal majority has ruled that NSW Police did not discriminate against a senior constable who was seeking promotion when it refused to accommodate requests for part-time hours to meet her carer's responsibilities.
The FWC has rejected Finance Sector Union arguments and terminated a 17-year-old banking enterprise agreement that applies to senior executives who are paid far more than the instrument's prescribed rates.
The High Court has today denied the CFMEU special leave to challenge a ruling that an employer didn't engage in unlawful adverse action when it transferred an employee from weekend to weekday shifts because of the "lack of predictability" in his attendance.
The Fair Work Commission has again refused to issue good faith bargaining orders against the MUA over the deadlocked offshore and gas bargaining round with a group of vessel operators.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash today appointed a former Freehills and Clayton Utz lawyer, an ACCI IR director and two IR managers as members of the FWC, while she extended the term of the tribunal's sole acting commissioner.
