The joint proprietor of a small formwork and steel fixing business has told the Heydon Royal Commission today that a second ACT branch official of the CFMEU raised the issue of possible "donations" to win work.
The Fair Work Commission has approved a protected action ballot at the Gorgon LNG project's biggest contractor, CB&I, raising the possibility of protected strikes as the already delayed project nears completion.
The FWO is seeking to have the High Court determine whether employers can circumvent sham contracting provisions by utilising a third party, such as a labour hire company, to indirectly engage workers.
An appeal court has accepted that a senior staff disciplinary policy is contractually binding, despite finding the dismissed employee's arguments "grossly embarrassing".
A FWC full bench has refused an AiG bid to delete provisions for time-off-in-lieu (TOIL) and make-up pay at overtime rates from 10 modern awards, but has proposed a new model TOIL term for all modern awards that don't have one.
Maritime unions are taking the federal government to the High Court, alleging it is misusing visas reserved for visiting royals and dignitaries to "open the backdoor to cheap foreign labour" in the offshore oil and gas industry.
A full Federal Court ruled today that an employer wasn't entitled to include all casuals it had engaged in the previous year in the cohort that voted on its enterprise agreement.
The UK's Cameron Conservative Government has unveiled a higher hurdle for strikes and a new requirement for union members to "opt in" to payment of political levies, in what is billed as the most significant crackdown on unions since the Thatcher administration 30 years ago.
The AMWU has responded to the continued loss of Australian manufacturing jobs and falling union membership by making 11 officials redundant in Victoria and NSW over recent months.
