In the latest development in Boral's bid to recover millions in damages from the CFMEU over bans on supplying concrete to building sites, the union will seek special leave from the High Court to challenge the Victorian Court of Appeal's ruling that the tort of intimidation continues to be part of Australia's common law.
BHP Coal must reinstate two truck drivers it sacked for breaching the company's on-site mobile electronic devices policy, after the Fair Work Commission found decision-makers without HR expertise failed to ensure the dismissals were fair.
In a decision with wide ramifications for state governments negotiating with public sector unions, a full Federal Court has upheld a firefighters' union challenge to a ruling that clauses in an enterprise agreement infringed the states' implied constitutional protection identified by the High Court in Re AEU.
The Productivity Commission will release an issues paper this month for its IR review and will seek initial submissions by mid-March, ahead of its November reporting deadline.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has recommended, in his interim report, released today, that the public prosecutor charge CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka with blackmail,
The Fair Work Commission has taken into account possible pending criminal action against the management of a BHP Coal mine to stay a union application for a dispute hearing.
Late employer evidence about the alleged behaviour in a pub of a slaughterperson who was waiting to find out if he would win his job back after being validly but unfairly dismissed has failed to prevent him winning a reinstatement order.
A lawyer who has used a little-known legislative provision to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding for individuals to run workplace discrimination claims says the High Court's Purvis ruling has "rendered useless" laws preventing sex and pregnancy bias on the job.
The employer bid to change penalty rates is shaping as a massive case in the Fair Work Commission that will run until late next year, with almost 200 witnesses to be called over more than 100 hearing days.
