Reynolds gets up in CFMEU WA election replay; UK Government accepts recommendation for 1.25% minimum wage rise, as AFPC ruling looms; Furnishing trades union does enterprise deal with new owner of auto glass manufacturer; ACF complains about "misleading" claims on impacts of CPRS on jobs; and Sydney University team to bid for another term editing JIR.
The two international IR and labour law conferences to be held in Sydney in August and September have secured major keynote speakers, with President Obama's labour advisor Tom Kochan to address one and the head of the United States' national industrial umpire the other.
The Federal Court has ordered the CFMEU to pay a $75,000 penalty, plus costs that could exceed that amount, for defying a court order to end a picket at the new Royal Children's Hospital building site in Melbourne.
The NUW is considering appealing the Industrial Registrar's decision to reject its branch restructure on the basis that it would have disadvantaged the union's Queensland, SA and WA branches by bringing them under the control of the national office.
The Federal Court has ordered an employer to delay a ballot of its workers for a non-union collective agreement after finding it exhibited a "lack of candour" when it failed to tell the AIRC it intended to hold the vote.
A pumphouse attendant at a steelworks who twice gave a co-worker an unwanted open-mouthed kiss has failed to convince the NSW IRC that his dismissal for sexual harassment was unfair.
Federal parliament has passed the Rudd Government's transitional IR legislation, with the Government getting its amendments up and independent Senator Nick Xenophon winning approval for his requirement that the AIRC consider the effect on industry of its modern awards.
CFMEU to face court over Tribe industrial dispute; Study finds race matters in job success; British Airways plea for workers to sacrifice pay; Gender imbalance on company boards getting worse; LHMU's Ferrari to become Fair Work Conciliator; Arbib filling in for Gillard; and Position vacant at JIR.
The Federal Court has ordered a blind manufacturer to pay a total of $360,000 to the CFMEU Federated Furnishing Trades Division's Victorian branch and about 40 of its members, after finding the company had been underpaying night shift loading.
The lawyer who represented the CFMEU's Noel Washington after he was charged for refusing to attend an ABCC interview says the Rudd Government's reference in its construction legislation to fines as an alternative to jail for not cooperating with a building watchdog examination did not soften the existing BCII Act provision.
