The Fair Work Building & Construction Inspectorate has launched civil proceedings in the Federal Court against the CFMEU and ten officials alleging coercion over their demand that Grocon employ union-nominated shop stewards at its sites.
Thousands of NSW public servants have today defied IRC orders prohibiting a four-hour strike in protest against the O'Farrell Government's IR changes; while the ETU has blasted the NSW Premier's "bizarre claim" that amendments to the Fair Work regime are the key to lowering power costs.
The NSW Supreme Court has stopped two former OAMPS Gault Armstrong Pty Ltd insurance brokers from working for a direct competitor, pending a hearing on the enforceability of restraint of trade clauses in their employment contracts.
Adecco manager under unfair dismissal earnings threshold; Victorian disability services industrial action allowed to continue; and printing and graphics arts associations to merge.
The reign of CFMEU construction and general division WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald could be under threat, with long-serving organiser Mark Hudston mounting a challenge in next month's union election.
Telstra and communication unions are hopeful that a new, single enterprise agreement to cover the majority of the company's employees will be in operation by the end of October.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has held that Abigroup Contractors was denied procedural fairness when it wasn't allowed to call a witness during a hearing of unfair dismissal claims by four workers who lost their jobs in what the company claimed were "plain vanilla" redundancies.
A Federal Court judge has this morning rejected self-represented federal parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper's argument that James Ashby's sexual harassment case against him should be dismissed because the staffer had settled with the Commonwealth.
SDA greenfields deal survives appeal; Commonwealth Bank appeals mutual trust and confidence ruling; and Court fines company director for refusing to provide employment records
