The CFMEU construction and general division's WA branch is raising money to pay fines of up to $10,000 each against individual building workers, after some of them faced seizure orders for assets.
Lend Lease has secured orders against workers on a major Brisbane project but has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that the CFMEU is organising continuing unlawful industrial action as part of a campaign against Queensland's new right of entry restrictions.
In an unusual postscript to a notorious sham contracting case, an abattoir operator has relied on a Federal Court ruling that it had vigorously opposed to successfully argue that it was the employer of an injured worker, thus avoiding having to pay him more than $150,000 in common law damages.
The Tasmanian Government faces a political and legal battle over a proposal to override existing agreements and impose a one-year pay freeze across the entire state public sector.
The Heydon Royal Commission is turning its sights on union "relevant entities" - with slush funds "of particular interest" - and has called for submissions on their establishment, funding, conduct and regulation.
Two Australia Post employees sacked for circulating p--nography in the workplace will keep their jobs after a full Federal Court ruled this morning that a FWC full bench made no errors in its decision to grant them leave to appeal a decision that upheld their dismissals.
The Federal Circuit Court has allowed an employee sacked after being absent with cancer for 10 months to proceed with his adverse action claim, holding a dismissal could still be unlawful even if a sick or injured employee was away for longer than the three months specified in the Fair Work laws.
The ruling UK Conservative Party will lift the attendance threshold for strike ballots, impose a three month limit on industrial action and clamp down on picketing if it wins next year's election, while Britain's peak union body has called on the government to introduce online voting.
A former sporting association CEO has failed in his second attempt to win a damages payout for the hurt, distress and loss of reputation caused by his mid-season sacking.
A court has ordered the board of an aged care provider to provide a sacked employee, who is pursuing an adverse action case, with its law firm's confidential report that recommended his dismissal.
