In a testy exchange with CFMEU barrister John Agius SC this morning, Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has ruled that airing a building company director's secret recording of a telephone call with a union organiser was not unlawful because it was in the public interest for it to be played.
The ETU has lost its challenge to a FWC decision to deny one of its organisers an entry permit, with the tribunal rejecting the union's argument that it shouldn't follow an earlier full bench ruling involving the MUA.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has this afternoon refused a CFMEU request that he instigate a federal police investigation into allegations that his inquiry into union corruption is leaking information to the media.
With the Heydon Royal Commission due to turn its sights on the CFMEU from Monday, the union's lawyer has today requested a witness list "as a matter of urgency".
Age discrimination and award modernisation are high on the list of Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James's priorities, as she nears the first anniversary of her appointment.
The Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade's application to terminate its enterprise agreements with the United Firefighters Union's Victorian branch is shaping as a major legal struggle that will hear from 92 witnesses over 20 days.
The Heydon Royal Commission today denied leaking information to the media, after the CFMEU’s construction division complained about the emergence into the public arena of material that is expected to be aired at next week’s hearing into the union.
Toll Holdings Ltd's senior legal counsel Damian Sloan told the Heydon Royal Commission yesterday that the company agreed to contribute up to $150,000 a year to a training company established by the TWU in order to get its 2011 enterprise agreement with the union over the line.
