The Heydon Royal Commission will next week issue a discussion paper that will canvass whether penalties for union officials who breach their duties should be brought into line with those for company directors under the Corporations Act.
A sacked manager has won an extension of time for her late unfair dismissal claim, after the FWC accepted that her lawyer was responsible for lodging it 32 seconds after the 21-day cut-off.
The Abbott Government's second budget looks to pick up more tax revenue from local FIFO employees and foreign workers visiting Australia, along with $845 million from changes to how work-related car expenses are calculated.
Fair Work Commission president Iain Ross has revealed that he plans to review the way the tribunal allocates work to members, including its system of industry-based and occupation-based panels, which has been largely unchanged for a decade.
The "critical facts" John Holland Group relied on to sack an OHS advisor for "misrepresenting" a safety incident have failed to stand up in the Fair Work Commission.
The FWC has ordered CFMEU construction and general division WA branch secretary Mick Buchan to amend his application for a new entry permit after finding he failed to declare four active court proceedings against him.
The Heydon Royal Commission has today questioned whether the TWU's WA branch management committee approved spending $150,000 each on two customised "luxury" pickup trucks that were provided to two of the union's leaders.
The federal government is planning to end what it claims is "double-dipping" when 20,000 working parents each year receive their full paid parental leave entitlements from both their employer and the public purse, but leading IR academics say the two payments are intended to be complementary.
