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.
Summarily dismissing employees for negligent rather than deliberate misconduct is now an "outdated concept", the Fair Work Commission has suggested in reinstating a security officer sacked for admitting a minor to a casino.
The CFMEU has secured at least a temporary reprieve from the FWC's review of its entry rights at four Lend Lease construction sites in South Australia, with a senior member of the tribunal suspending the process for an appeal.
Data released today shows that wage rises have now grown at a moderate 3.5% a year in private sector agreements approved in two successive quarters – which might ease concerns that bargaining is securing unsustainable increases.
Inferring the boss is a "wanker" in an all-staff email is rarely a good career move, but the Fair Work Commission has found that it should not have been a job-ending one for a building company senior manager, despite it being "ill-considered" and "offensive".
Union officials who repeatedly act in an unreasonable fashion towards workers or managers could be exposed to orders under the new Fair Work anti-bullying regime, according to senior lawyers from Seyfarth Shaw.
