CFMEU construction division administrator Mark Irving KC has accepted all of investigator Geoffrey Watson SC's recommendations to reform the union and has asked him to continue his probe, using the administration's coercive powers to overcome the limits identified in his interim report.
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils' chief executive has today won a pause on his sacking over allegations he s-xually harassed a new assistant, after the Federal Court accepted there is a "strong inference" it rushed to oust him hours before he would become eligible to mount an unfair dismissal case.
A FWC senior member has warned Virgin Australia pilots that if they reject a recommended offer, including what the TWU says is a "historic" pay boost of up to 21% over three years and a sign-on bonus, it will create "further uncertainty and prevent substantive pay increases" for all.
South Australia's Malinauskas Government is likely to soon secure passage of legislation establishing a portable long service leave scheme for the community services sector, with potential to build on it to include other sectors in future.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority claims in its court bid to disqualify CFMEU manufacturing division national secretary Michael O'Connor that he failed to prioritise his duties as director of First Super when negotiating to extend a contract for union services that upped fees by 5% and came with a $350,000 "roll over" hit.
The Federal Court this Friday will hear the HSU's urgent interlocutory application to put its Victorian No 1 branch into administration, after the union filed claims that branch leader Diana Asmar threatened to kill, sack and expose an employee who allegedly blew the whistle on her alleged misappropriation of funds.
A full Federal Court has overturned a ruling that Sydney Trains unlawfully discriminated against a trainee driver it sacked for failing to disclose that she had ADHD and autism, finding a judge relied on a "number of interrelated assumptions" unsupported by evidence.
The CFMEU construction division's Victorian branch has been infiltrated by bikies and organised crime figures, and "caught up in a cycle of lawlessness", according to preliminary findings of a union-commissioned probe released today by administrator Mark Irving KC.
The FWC has extended time for a worker's one-day-late unfair dismissal claim, finding his employer's "misleading" letter confirming his sacking resulted in his representative miscalculating the deadline.
