The owner and director of a formwork company in Canberra paid $135,000 to a CFMEU lead organiser in 2012 and 2013 to win contracts, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is seeking individual penalties against seven seafarers who took unlawful industrial action last year when they refused for 10 days to weigh anchor for their last journey before being made redundant.
Coles supermarkets agreement gets up after undertakings; Communications deal voted up; FWC bench rejects Alexander Spirit appeal; and Calls for Ross to resolve Lawler matter "misguided", says barristers.
The Federal Court has temporarily stopped an employer from accessing the results of an agreement ballot, after accepting there was an arguable case that it misled employees about their workplace rights.
An FWC full bench will tomorrow hear an MUA challenge to the s418 order issued this week to halt an oil tanker crew’s protests against shipping company Teekay Shipping (Australia) replacing them with foreign workers.
The Heydon Royal Commission showed its prejudice against Opposition Leader Bill Shorten with a "remarkable intervention" during today's hearing, according to Shadow Workplace Relations Minister Brendan O'Connor.
A NSW government agency must pay a former employee more than $180,000 plus interest for economic loss, pain, suffering and general damages for its discriminatory treatment of her and its failure to make reasonable adjustments after her diagnosis with Crohn's Disease.
A tram company's payments to a driver it suspended then sacked for texting on the job made up for procedural shortcomings arising from its "hands off" HR practices, the FWC has found.
