Australia's largest poultry processor will employ a HR specialist to oversee a new grievance hotline, investigate complaints and report them to the FWO and will place HR support workers at every processing plant as part of a "proactive compliance deed" that also requires it to set aside $500,000 to reimburse underpaid workers.
BlueScope Steel says that steelmaking will continue in Port Kembla after "game-changing" cost savings of $200 million a year negotiated with employees, unions and the NSW Government.
The FWBC's annual report shows it has dramatically increased litigation on coercion and right of entry matters since it shifted focus under the leadership of Nigel Hadgkiss.
A tribunal has upheld the dismissal of a long-serving employee who campaigned against the axing of two of his employer's facilities, after accepting that his past as a whistleblower probably played no part in the decision to sack him.
The AEC is calling on the Federal Court to conduct an inquiry into a suspended Federal Police Association election and to let it re-start the process, arguing undelivered ballot papers, administrative errors and defective nominations following zoning changes have breached election rules.
Former Victorian AWU branch secretary Cesar Melhem has denied directing a subordinate not to send a "side deal" with a cleaning company to the union's national office, as end of the Heydon Royal Commission's hearings looms.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the alleged cartel behaviour identified by the Heydon Royal Commission in the ACT construction sector might have revealed a way to investigate "additional restrictive behaviour" in the IR arena.
FWC President Iain Ross told a Senate Estimates hearing this afternoon that he wrote to Vice President Lawler last year, after he had appeared in court for his partner Kathy Jackson, saying that any further participation would clash with the principle that members should avoid involvement in matters of public controversy.
A former dive shop manager placed on a three-year good behaviour bond for threatening to "knock down" WorkCover's barrister during a workers compensation hearing has failed to overturn his conviction and sentence in the SA Supreme Court.
The HSU has accused the Heydon Royal Commission of undermining its own credibility by treating former national secretary Kathy Jackson with "kid gloves".
