South Australian Employee Ombudsman Stephen Brennan has been charged with falsifying accounts and dishonesty when secretary of the TCFU's former SA/Tasmanian branch, while the Fair Work Commission is continuing to investigate the branch's financial affairs.
A FWC full bench has given an offshore oil and gas vessel operator the green light to argue the MUA was not genuinely trying to reach agreement even though it didn't make such a claim during initial protected ballot hearings, but has rejected the company's other attempts to knock out ballot orders the union secured.
The FWC's president, Justice Iain Ross, will reconstitute the expert panel that is to prepare a list of MySuper products that can be designated as default superannuation funds, after he excluded two members because of potential conflicts of interest.
The Coalition has given the Productivity Commission a broad brief for its IR inquiry, listing economic conditions, unemployment and strike levels along with both the Fair Work and Independent Contractors Acts and IR "institutions" as matters for it to consider.
The Federal Government is yet to decide whether it will introduce a FWC appeals jurisdiction, while its submission to the four-year modern award review leaves the door open for stakeholders to seek pay rises, a Senate committee has heard.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that it is not prevented from considering behaviour that occurred before the start of the new bullying jurisdiction on January 1 this year when dealing with applications for orders to stop the conduct.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled that only employees who will immediately be covered by an enterprise agreement are entitled to vote on its approval, not employees who are likely to be covered in the future.
In the first full bench ruling on the issue, the Fair Work Commission has found that unfair dismissal applications lodged before a termination of employment takes effect are not automatically invalid and the tribunal has the power to waive any defects in their early filing.
A Sydney-based silk with a strong suit in commercial law is tipped for the crucial role of counsel assisting the royal commission into the governance of unions and their financial dealings.
A sacked MUA delegate has won "fragile" interim reinstatement orders, after the Federal Court heard what it described as a "chilling" workplace description by two of his female colleagues.
