The ASU has taken the novel approach of naming NSW's Treasurer and IR Minister as respondents in a successful application for protected action ballot orders targeting the State's rail network, after the government enterprises made it clear that their hands are tied.
A security company has been ordered to pay more than $40,000 compensation to a former manager after the FWC found its owner/chief executive pressured him to sign a new contract with higher sales targets and broader constraint clauses and then told him to "finish up" when he refused.
Key ACTU affiliates have emerged to call for unity, after the CEPU this afternoon revealed it plans to disaffiliate from the ACTU in protest against its backing of the Albanese Government's takeover of the CFMEU's construction and general division after media reports of corruption and infiltration by bikies.
A High Court challenge launched by ousted leaders of the CFMEU construction division's Queensland branch seeks an urgent hearing to deal with claims the Albanese Government's administration scheme is unconstitutional and intended to gag the division in the lead-up to the next federal election.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has withdrawn his Federal Court application to put the CFMEU's construction and general division into administration, after the Albanese Government passed legislation to serve the same purpose.
The CFMEU's maritime division has declared this morning that it will contribute to the High Court challenge by former officials of the construction division to the Albanese Government's legislation putting the latter in the hands of an administrator.
The FWC has backed Ambulance Victoria's decision to transfer a "socially inept" paramedic 350 kilometres away after an investigator found he bullied a female colleague.
The MEU has opened up another front in its continuing battles with BHP, claiming in a new Federal Court case that the mining giant is breaching award provisions by failing to give its Operations Services in-house labour hire workforce Christmas and Boxing Day off and not seeking majority support for regular shifts in excess of 10 hours.
With only eight weeks until same-job, same-pay orders can take effect, the MEU is continuing to put coal mining majors and their labour suppliers on notice that it won't tolerate two-tier workforces, launching new claims against companies including Peabody Energy and Workpac that came before before FWC president Adam Hatcher yesterday.
Productivity in the private sector dropped sharply in the June quarter as hours worked and real labour costs increased, according to ABS national accounts data released today.
