A full bench headed by FWC President Iain Ross has criticised multinational law firm Herbert Smith Freehills for failing to alert the tribunal to legal authorities that would not have helped its bid for orders to stop industrial action at the Gladstone LNG project.
The CFMEU's NSW construction branch secretary says the union investigated a former official's claim that he received a death threat from a colleague, and has rejected allegations about his relationship with a contractor on a major project.
Craig Thomson's earlier denials that he had used his HSU credit card to pay for escort services did not indicate that he knew he would be convicted of fraud if he owned up, but were made to protect his reputation, his defence counsel has told the Victorian Magistrates Court today.
Employment Minister Eric Abetz says he will intervene to support Toyota's Federal Court bid for an employee vote on changing its enterprise agreement; has strongly criticised employers for past bargaining "cave-ins"; and has warned of a wages "explosion".
The FWC has ordered Qantas to provide the ALAEA with access to documents at the centre of a right of entry dispute arising from the 2012 Qantas/ALAEA workplace determination.
Following sweeping allegations of corruption in the building industry this morning, CFMEU construction and general division national secretary Dave Noonan has written to Victorian and NSW police chiefs today urging them to carry out "all necessary investigations" into the claims and promising the union's full co-operation.
Long-serving Qantas IR manager Sue Bussell, employment law academic Rosemary Owens and SDA national assistant secretary Ian Blandthorn have been recognised in the 2014 Australia Day Honours.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has confirmed the process for calculating compensation for unfairly dismissed workers, more than doubling a boilermaker's return after finding fault with the method originally used to assess his loss.
Despite making rarely-used orders to temporarily protect the job of a nurse with family responsibilities, a tribunal has ruled that her employer had a valid operational reason to dismiss her.
A HR manager who sent a private Facebook message to her boss's estranged wife that was critical of him did not breach the company's social media policy, the Fair Work Commission has found.
