In the first formal ruling since the inception of its anti-bullying jurisdiction at the start of last year, the FWC has found employees at an unidentified small real estate business were victims of bullying, after the head of its bullying panel issued orders during a determinative conference.
A FWC full bench has rejected a prestigious private school's representational rights notice for being inconsistent with statutory content requirements, after dismissing its "dividing line" defence.
The AFP has won freeze orders over $8.5 million worth of assets including a 2014 Ferrari during investigations into businessmen who supplied contract workers to Australia Post.
The employer push for lower penalty rates in the Fair Work Commission includes expert evidence that most weekend workers have no problem or only minor problems with performing their duties on Saturdays and Sundays.
CFMEU official John Lomax today entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of blackmail and won bail in the ACT Magistrates Court, while the leader of the CFMEU's ACT branch denied any acts of impropriety in the Heydon Royal Commission today.
The Australian Federal Police has made three arrests after a series of raids in Melbourne today of companies and individuals involved with supplying contract labour to Australia Post.
Reinstatement would no longer be the primary objective when the FWC is considering remedies for unfairly dismissed workers, the small business fair dismissal code would be axed and compensation for unlawful adverse action would be capped, under proposals in the Productivity Commission's draft IR report.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has overturned a single member decision outlawing industrial action for three months after finding there was insufficient evidence that industrial action was happening or threatened.
The CFMEU's construction and general division, ACT branch, set up a complex web of structures and related entities to disguise that it reaped substantial profits under the terms of union-negotiated agreements, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today.
