HSU Tasmanian branch secretary Chris Brown is the only nomination for the union's vacant national president position, but he faces a battle to get rid of national secretary Kathy Jackson after she vowed to fight to the bitter end charges he laid against her this week.
NSW public sector employees stand to lose or have reduced a range of longstanding benefits, including shift penalties, annual leave loading and leave entitlements, under an O'Farrell Government application before the NSW IRC.
The ALAEA says FWA has cleared the way for it to pursue its bid to change its rules to cover a new category of unlicensed aircraft maintenance engineers at Qantas, after a full bench today rejected an application for orders to stop it representing the workers.
Fair Work Building and Construction chief executive Leigh Johns has challenged those who say the inspectorate should have intervened in the Grocon Supreme Court proceedings to identify the powers it could have relied upon, while the main players are about to head back for more talks with FWA President, Justice Iain Ross.
Grocon Constructors has shown the Victorian Supreme Court graphic footage of CFMEU protesters pushing back police horses in Melbourne's CBD this morning in its successful bid to extend a ban on union officials coming within 50 metres of the Emporium site.
Queensland's Newman Government has passed legislation to void public sector agreement clauses that provide for job security and regulate contracting-out, give greater scope for lawyers to appear in the State IRC and remove administrative duties from Commission President David Hall.
Court to rule tomorrow on Bluescope Steel injunction bid; Judge holds off on Grocon contempt application; FWA orders employer to share confidential information with unions; Lack of representation not a denial of natural justice, says bench; and Tribunal calls for entitlement portability for enlisted Defence personnel.
A FWA full bench has taken the rare step of criticising a fellow member for delays in approving an enterprise agreement, in upholding the employer's appeal against a finding it had failed the better off overall test.
