The ACCC has told the High Court that if a full court's ruling on alleged anti-competitive conduct by the CFMEU is allowed to stand, unions will be able pressure businesses into boycotting goods or service suppliers so long as the threatened corporation does not expressly confirm its collusion.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has refused to stay an order compelling the UFU to hand over a trust deed for an income protection scheme that Fire Rescue Victoria claims might expose it to a $7 million annual fringe benefits tax liability.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a Sydney Trains employee found to have traces of cocaine in his system, despite ruling that a senior member wrongly concluded that employers need to establish workers who fail drug and alcohol tests are at risk of being "impaired" before sacking them.
QCU general secretary Jacqueline King has warned ahead of the State election on Saturday that public sector pay rises of 2.5% will not be enough to avoid industrial action, regardless of who is in power, while unions are also continuing their push for a significant boost to paid parental leave entitlements.
SDA members have for a second time voted down Aldi's proposed Regency Park deal that covers a major distribution centre and stores in South Australia and adjacent areas of Victoria and NSW, after the union urged them to reject it.
The Federal Court has suppressed a Channel Seven producer's statement of claim and other documents lodged in connection with her general protections claim, saying that releasing details of alleged workplace behaviours would reduce the chances of achieving a mediated outcome by taking a "bargaining chip" off the table.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has moved to reassure transport industry employers that the TWU's minimum-standards test cases for gig workers and "last-mile" deliveries will not be hijacked by an advisory group set up by Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt, promising "genuine engagement" and emphasising that the Commission retains control of the "deliberative processes".
An aged care employer has failed to win approval of a deal after its head of employee relations admitted it had "no excuse" for purposely withholding information, while "racing to beat a no campaign", that clarified whether workers would get a pay rise and how they would be classified once it combined four agreements into one.
In a judgment highlighting the lengths Qantas took to reverse engineer its decision to outsource 1700 ground handling jobs during the pandemic and the challenge ahead for setting compensation more broadly, the Federal Court has found its conduct caused one of three workers selected as test cases to develop a major psychiatric illness.
More than 33,000 WA public sector workers are in line for a 12.5% pay increase over three years and up to 27 weeks of "more flexible" parental leave for both caregivers, as the CPSU Civil Service Association pledges to keep fighting for a four-day work week.
