The Fair Work Commission's minimum wage expert panel has called for submissions on whether its construction of its role in establishing and maintaining a safety net in last year's review was wrong.
As allegations of corruption continue to fly in the national construction industry, CFMEU Victorian construction branch secretary John Setka has emphatically denied he accepted $10,000 worth of supplies for his home from a Melbourne building supplier in the mid-1990s in return for "peace and quiet".
A FWC full bench has held that identifying a suitable job or position is a prerequisite to finding that a sacked employee should have been redeployed, and that reinstatement orders don't have to specify the role the worker will take up.
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.
