The Federal Court has fined BHP Coal more than 90% of the maximum available penalty for breaching the Fair Work Act's adverse action provisions when it dismissed two CFMEU lodge officials at its Peak Downs mine in Central Queensland.
CFMEU official Joe McDonald's aggregate contempt bill is approaching $100,000 after the Federal Court yesterday hit him with another large fine for breaching an order forbidding him from coming within 100m of Brookfield Multiplex's Fiona Stanley Hospital site in Murdoch, WA.
The NSW Government has pledged to appeal yesterday's state IRC ruling that stops it from counting superannuation increases owed to public sector employees towards their 2.5% annual wage increase.
NSW unions have had a big win over the O'Farrell Government this morning, with the High Court declaring that the state's new political donation laws are unconstitutional.
A likely shortage of experienced, skilled supervisory and operational workers in the resources sector could reduce productivity and safety as the industry moves from a construction to operational phase, a new report has warned.
CFMEU Victorian branch secretary John Setka has been ordered to pay the costs of an unsuccessful appeal against a decision in his long-running defamation case against now Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Sky News.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, in its first and possibly last order, issued today, has increased from 14 days to 30 days the time in which contractor truck drivers must be paid after submitting invoices.
In a decision rejecting a labour hire company's argument that Tooheys was the true employer of its workers, a senior Fair Work Commission full bench has this morning poured more cold water on the possibility of the joint employment doctrine taking hold in Australia and maintained that the tribunal has no role in developing the common law.
With Linfox and TWU closing in on a new national agreement for 3000 drivers and warehouse workers, the FWC has knocked back the NUW's late bid for a scope order to carve out around 300 employees at the company's Truganina site in Melbourne's western suburbs.
A FWC full bench has directed a Jetstar flight attendant to address it on whether it can consider reinstating her in the wake of media reports that South African authorities are seeking to extradite her over allegations of "criminal conduct of the most serious kind".
