The Heydon Royal Commission has summonsed labour hire company owner George Alex, who was arrested and charged by NSW police this month over alleged threatening phone calls, to appear at a hearing, probably next week.
Global smelting company Nyrstar had a valid reason to sack two workers for a history of bullying behaviour, but its failure to deal with the conduct over a long period and to put specific allegations to them meant the dismissals were unfair, the FWC has ruled.
Victorian police have won access to about 290 documents held by law firm Slater & Gordon that relate to an alleged slush fund run by former AWU official Bruce Wilson in 1992.
In the first real IR test of the post-July 1 Senate's precarious balance of power, Palmer United Party senators voted with their Coalition colleagues last night to preserve, by one vote, the rights of the WA government and third parties to ask the Fair Work Commission to terminate damaging industrial action.
Former NSW building union official Brian Fitzpatrick told the Heydon Royal Commission today he was wasn't worried about another organiser carrying out an alleged death threat as his real fear was getting on the wrong side of labour hire company operator George Alex.
An employee's agreement in her contract of employment that her company car was notionally worth $8,000 has pushed her annual remuneration above the high income threshold for the FWC's unfair dismissal regime.
Employees are not entitled to bring a support person to a meeting to investigate a workplace incident that might result in dismissal, a FWC full bench has ruled in overturning the reinstatement of a long-serving forklift driver.
BHP Mitsubishi Alliance will cut about 700 coal mining jobs in central Queensland, raising concerns among unions that they will make greater use of contingent workers.
A young Irish worker has told the Heydon Royal Commission the building company Lis-Con moved his pay as an "ABN worker" between different companies to avoid restrictions on working holidays visas.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld a decision to refuse a Queensland building union official an entry permit, while a senior member has stayed the suspension of permits for 12 other officers.
