The HSU's national executive has moved ahead of the release of the report by Ian Temby QC and the outcome of police investigations to ask Michael Williamson to resign or face internal action.
Taking only "embryonic" steps towards reaching an agreement; relying on employer inaction rather than its own initiative; and naming the wrong employer after a restructure were all reasons for FWA's rejection of protected action ballot applications by the CFMEU in Queensland.
The ACTU’s executive has this afternoon voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution to immediately suspend the HSU as an affiliate in the wake of FWA’s finding of 181 breaches by the national office and with other investigations still to come.
The "sweet spot" for improving wealth creation and wellbeing at enterprises isn't in "tiresomely" debating fairness versus flexibility, while advocating simple cures for complex problems is IR "quackery", according to Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has made an interim order to protect the bargaining rights of Victorian hospital-based mental health employees by restraining the employer from circulating an agreement to the workforce ahead of a ballot.
FWA general manager Bernadette O'Neill says she acted within the powers available to her and in accordance with AGS advice when she referred the HSU national office report to the Commonwealth DPP, after public prosecutor Chris Craigie SC said the form of the materials provided to him were a barrier to deciding whether criminal proceedings were warranted against the union's national office and officials.
Bowen Basin mineworkers to strike again for seven days; Highest Victorian fine for shoe store operators who deliberately underpaid staff; Child protection agreement narrows scope of Victorian public service workplace determination; UnionsWA backs HSU in the west; and Tribunal throws out case based on "grave" 1990s discrimination allegations.
Major contract cleaning company, the Spotless Group, and United Voice remain locked in a battle over the company's preference to employ shopping centre cleaners under the Cleaning Services Award and the union's push for a sector-wide agreement containing significant wage increases.
Attempts by the Victorian Government to enforce provisions in its new construction guidelines that effectively re-impose parts of the Work Choices prohibited content regime could result in unions or employers launching a general protections case based on denial of their workplace rights, according to University of Adelaide Professor of Law, Andrew Stewart.
