The ACTU in a new report has attacked the Abbott Government's plans to change individual flexibility arrangements, arguing they give employers greater scope to replace allowances and penalty rates with non-monetary benefits.
Former HSU leader Kathy Jackson has acknowledged that the public and many union members would find "unpalatable" her spending of large sums of money from an "offline" account, but maintained there were factional "warlords out there" on the "hunt to take over a union", and "you had to have a war chest" to survive.
In what four judges agree is an "extraordinary case" involving a "spectacularly bad witness" and a "serial fraudster", a Swan Hill shop assistant will keep almost half a million dollars in back pay and interest after a full Federal Court confirmed that she had not agreed to work for nothing.
BHP Coal was entitled to direct a boilermaker to attend an appointment with a company-nominated physician to determine whether he was fit to return to work, and to then terminate his employment when he refused to go, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled.
Ray Evans, one of the founders of the HR Nicholls Society, died yesterday after being a powerful force in Australia’s conservative intellectual circles for decades.
HSU whistleblower Kathy Jackson told the Heydon Royal Commission this afternoon that she once handed over $7,000 from a union political fund to David Asmar - a former staffer of Labor Senator Stephen Conroy - for "ALP memberships".
FWC begins building database of innovative and productive agreement clauses; FWC bench to hear Aurizon termination bid next month; RBA expecting persistent low wages growth; and Legal recruitment, retention and remuneration survey closes June 30.
