The High Court has this morning unanimously found there is no legal barrier to an order for the CFMEU to supply officials' phone numbers to help investigators determine who directed bans on Boral's concrete supplies.
The Abbott Government has used parliamentary privilege to question whether Labor leader Bill Shorten sought to convince a rival cleaning company in 2006 to mirror the controversial Cleanevent arrangements.
The AWU has called for Esso Australian to return to negotiations after workers at its Bass Strait oil and gas operations overwhelmingly rejected proposed new enterprise agreements.
Some 40% of Australian jobs – and more than 60% in regional areas – could disappear in the next two decades because of increased computerisation and automation, according to a research report released by CEDA today.
Three employees of a major transport and logistics company have been reinstated after the FWC overruled their employer's decision to dismiss them for allegedly stealing uniforms.
Two former TWU WA branch leaders breached their fiduciary duties under the Registered Organisations Act when they purchased two $150,000 "luxury utilities", the Heydon Royal Commission has been told today.
The ACCC won't pursue side-deeds under which the TWU agreed to "audit" transport giant Toll Holdings' major competitors and the company directed up to $150,000 a year to the union’s training company.
The Fair Work Commission has terminated a Work Choices agreement between the AWU and a Spotless subsidiary that saved the employer about $2 million a year in wages and penalty rates.
Former HSU leader Kathy Jackson and her partner - Fair Work Commission Vice President Michael Lawler - have given an undertaking to the Federal Court that they will not finalise the transfer of a property in NSW, pending the result of litigation with the union.
A proposed agreement that sought to reduce working days each roster period from 26 to 23 days for the Gorgon LNG project's largest contractor has been voted down.
