Stevedore Hutchison is this afternoon urgently seeking a s418 order against the MUA, claiming that it is organising pickets outside its Sydney and Brisbane container terminals over its midnight dismissals of almost 100 employees - about 40% of its workforce.
The High Court's refusal today to grant special leave to challenge approval of "unauthorised" agreements leaves a group of three Melbourne private hospitals facing up to $1.5 million in unpaid wage rises in a 2012-2016 agreement they say is not sustainable or viable.
A Queensland abattoir has again failed in its bid to have a contentious enterprise agreement approved and previous orders by the FWC knocked out, after a full Federal Court rejected its appeal.
In the first formal ruling since the inception of its anti-bullying jurisdiction at the start of last year, the FWC has found employees at an unidentified small real estate business were victims of bullying, after the head of its bullying panel issued orders during a determinative conference.
A FWC full bench has rejected a prestigious private school's representational rights notice for being inconsistent with statutory content requirements, after dismissing its "dividing line" defence.
The AFP has won freeze orders over $8.5 million worth of assets including a 2014 Ferrari during investigations into businessmen who supplied contract workers to Australia Post.
The employer push for lower penalty rates in the Fair Work Commission includes expert evidence that most weekend workers have no problem or only minor problems with performing their duties on Saturdays and Sundays.
CFMEU official John Lomax today entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of blackmail and won bail in the ACT Magistrates Court, while the leader of the CFMEU's ACT branch denied any acts of impropriety in the Heydon Royal Commission today.
