A former Indigenous support service manager claiming unfair dismissal in the Fair Work Commission has revealed the role he and the organisation's chief executive played in scamming a WorkCover scheme designed to get injured workers back into meaningful employment.
The FWC has banned a CFMEU official from holding an entry permit for 19 months over his "serious and ugly" behaviour towards an FWBC inspector on a building site last year that was captured on video and played to the Heydon Royal Commission.
The HSU's long-running case to recover about $1.3 million from former national secretary Kathy Jackson is set down for trial from June 29, after the Federal Court rejected a last-ditch application for a permanent stay.
The Federal Circuit Court has found a newspaper publisher took adverse action when it forced a full-time journalist to sign a take-it-or-leave it statement reducing him to two days a week - with unspecified entitlements to be paid in instalments - and sacked him when he complained.
The Federal Court in fining the CFMEU $545,000 for unlawful industrial action has warned that it can't expect to keep its registration as a trade union while it "persistently abuses" its privileges.
Grocon and the CFMEU have settled the company's common law claim in which it was seeking more than $10m in damages for the union's 2012 blockade of its Myer Emporium project in Melbourne's CBD.
The Heydon Royal Commission today continued to probe the CFMEU's dealings with companies associated with labour hire operator George Alex, with organiser Darren Greenfield denying he received weekly secret cash payments, including from toilets.
The FWC has accepted the legitimacy of a Baiada policy that bans NUW officials, when exercising their entry rights to hold discussions with employees, from carrying mobiles and tablets that are capable of taking photos or video on its sites, but has re-listed the matter to consider "alternative solutions".
The FWO says that its next step after releasing its investigation report into substandard employment practices at three Baiada Group sites is to determine whether it can pursue the poultry processor for accessorial liability, sham contracting arrangements and knowingly providing false and misleading records.
The FWC has reinstated a Toll employee who made racist comments and has recommended the company seek to reverse its "hostile working environment" by participating in the Commission's developing better workplaces program.
