The NSW District Court has sentenced former CFMEU construction and general division NSW branch leaders Darren and Michael Greenfield to 30 and 18 months imprisonment respectively for receiving or soliciting corrupting benefits.
WorkPac is seeking in a hearing this afternoon to convince the Federal Court to stay a MEU bid to declare same-job, same-pay protected rates for on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine, until the FWC has settled the labour supplier's related SJSP dispute.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation employees have voted down an "insulting" 10% wage offer over three years, which would have come with weakened job security and increased barriers to pay progression, according to the MEAA.
The FWC has ruled that Woodside's agreement does not prevent it sending offshore platform employees to work in Perth when a cyclone hits, but doubts remain about whether such a direction is lawful and reasonable.
Former CFMEU construction and general division Queensland branch leaders Michael Ravbar and Jade Ingham directed membership payments to the state-registered union rather than the federally-registered entity, leaving members without voting power, in a move that might have been intended to "create an impregnable fiefdom into which the national organisation could not reach", administrator Mark Irving KC said today.
The NSW Minns Labor Government has introduced what the Business Council claims is the "most interventionist AI and digital regulation" for employers in the country, while separately reviving a bid to lift the workers' compensation total impairment threshold for psychological injuries.
The FWC has today reserved its decision on the first application to provide for a "just transition" for workers at a power station slated for closure in 2028.
Victorian employers would need to give employees two weeks' written notice before introducing workplace surveillance under proposed laws that have won in-principle support from the Allan Government, which also this week vowed to offer clearer advice on the use of medicinal cannabis in the workplace.
A senior FWC member has identified a paid agent's apparent "lack of familiarity" with Commission processes as a reason for refusing a worker's request for representation to defend his dismissal for alleged time-theft.
The NSW Parliament has passed stripped-back workers' compensation reforms following serious backlash over a Minns Government plan to increase the whole-person impairment threshold from 15% to 31% for employees suffering psychological injuries.
