Fair Work Australia has ordered the CFMEU to halt industrial industrial action for six months on the $1.2 billion children's hospital construction project in Perth, after finding its officials sought to intimidate employees by blocking their access to the site, and kept it up after last month's interim no-strike order.
The federal building inspectorate will not be taking action against the construction unions or any individual involved in last year's lengthy shutdown of the children's hospital project in Brisbane during a site rates dispute, a Senate committee has heard.
The Federal Magistrates Court has fined call centre operator Quincolli Pty Ltd $81,000 and its director $26,500, and ordered the company to reimburse more than $190,000 to 33 underpaid employees, in a FWO prosecution involving allegations of political interference.
A former Australian Taxation Office executive has failed to convince the Federal Court that the termination of her employment was a genuine redundancy under tax law or that her employer had breached its enterprise agreement in the process leading to the dismissal, in two separate full court appeals.
AiG will argue that annual leave is a "glaring omission" from the matters that can be dealt with in a modern award individual flexibility arrangement in its push for a variation to the model IFA clause.
A consortium involving UTS Business School Dean Roy Green and former Microsoft Australia head Steve Vamos has lodged a proposal with DEEWR to run the $12m Centre for Workplace Leadership, which is due to start operations next month.
The AWU didn't have to pay out any cash to settle a $10m-plus damages claim brought by an offshore gas project contractor on an Esso job in Bass Strait, while members who brought an adverse action counter-claim received a $1.8m payout, Victorian branch secretary Cesar Melhem told the union's national conference today.
Reports prepared by Fair Work Commission general manager Bernadette O'Neill reveal that more greenfields deals are being approved by the tribunal, while most parties are happy with the conciliation processes in unfair dismissal cases.
