FWA directs Canberra to fast-track issues paper on scope of apprentice wage review; Shorten says Government to respond to review in late June or in July; No case for discounting minimum wage rise, says ACTU; Qantas to make 500 maintenance workers redundant; BHPB Bowen Basin mineworkers going out for a week; Lawyers' peak body derides workers compensation scheme deficit claim; and NSW unions begin advertising campaign against workers compensation changes.
The Federal Court has prevented a door manufacturing company from asking its workforce to approve a draft enterprise agreement which included the CFMEU in the title and list of parties bound by the agreement despite the union opposing the proposed agreement.
An Aboriginal land council has failed to overturn an order that it pay almost $22,000 compensation to a casual survey worker for ceasing to offer him work because of his epilepsy.
Former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson has today accused the FWA officer who investigated his conduct of bias and selectivity, while he has maintained his position that other officials set up his alleged calls and payments to escort agencies.
The Federal Court has fined a labour hire company that admitted after a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation that it refused to hire a married couple because they were not members of the MUA.
The adverse action claim against House of Representatives Speaker Peter Slipper will resume in the Federal Court on June 15, after a federal government interlocutory bid to strike out the case didn't proceed in Sydney today.
Queensland's newly-elected Newman Government has moved quickly to reshape its IR system but has stopped short of following the NSW Government's moves to control public sector wage fixation.
Minister signals possible delay in Fair Work Act review panel report; Vale Judith Cohen AO; Call for papers for Australian Labour Law Association conference; Academic appointment for Geoffrey Giudice; and Updated link to secure work report.
The Government and Opposition are on the wrong track in seeking to toughen registered organisations laws in the wake of the HSU governance scandal, and should instead rely on corporate law, according to AMMA.
