An inexperienced WorkSafe inspector has told the Heydon Royal Commission that he "succumbed to the pressure" from CFMEU officials when he stopped a concrete pour over safety concerns in 2013.
The Federal Court has ordered a company to pay more than $10,000 in penalties and compensation to an employee it sacked for questioning whether he was being underpaid.
Leighton has failed to knock out most of a manager's adverse action claim that alleges the construction giant made him redundant for complaining it failed to disclose a project's $205 million budget blowout and overstated its revenue by $1.4 billion.
The CFMEU is seeking to challenge in the High Court a finding that an employer did not take adverse action against an employee because it was motivated by the "impact" of the person exercising a workplace right rather than the "actual exercise" of the right.
The joint proprietor of a small formwork and steel fixing business has told the Heydon Royal Commission today that a second ACT branch official of the CFMEU raised the issue of possible "donations" to win work.
The Fair Work Commission has approved a protected action ballot at the Gorgon LNG project's biggest contractor, CB&I, raising the possibility of protected strikes as the already delayed project nears completion.
The FWO is seeking to have the High Court determine whether employers can circumvent sham contracting provisions by utilising a third party, such as a labour hire company, to indirectly engage workers.
An appeal court has accepted that a senior staff disciplinary policy is contractually binding, despite finding the dismissed employee's arguments "grossly embarrassing".
A FWC full bench has refused an AiG bid to delete provisions for time-off-in-lieu (TOIL) and make-up pay at overtime rates from 10 modern awards, but has proposed a new model TOIL term for all modern awards that don't have one.
Maritime unions are taking the federal government to the High Court, alleging it is misusing visas reserved for visiting royals and dignitaries to "open the backdoor to cheap foreign labour" in the offshore oil and gas industry.
