AWU seeks to increase presence of women within union; Queensland branch rolls out iPads to all officials; Abbott vicious, negative and has form, says Combet; and Membership up slightly.
FWC launches unfair dismissal feedback pilot; Barnett Government asks IRC to head off nurse work bans strike; Triple-0 emergency operators threaten strike action; Shorten will view chalice as poisoned, says Abbott; and No CFMEU tears over Kloppers.
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.
