The AIRC has dismissed a request for an investigation into allegations of unauthorised expenditure by the AHA when it was led by former national director Richard Mulcahy in 2003, finding no reasonable grounds to believe any rules of the organisation had been breached.
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The Federal Court will this month hear a bid by Comcare licence-holder John Holland for an interpretation of the Workplace Relations Act that would restrict right of entry to a narrow range of elected union officials.
In the first case of its type initiated by the ABCC, the Federal Magistrates Court has today held a directions hearing into the building commission's prosecution of a head contractor for allegedly barring the CFMEU from entering a site to investigate a suspected safety breach.
The first meeting of the Workplace Relations Ministers' Council under the Rudd Government in Melbourne today confirmed that State Governments will be able to maintain their IR controls over public sector employees in state and local governments, Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard said.
The ACTU has signalled that additional employer contributions to superannuation will increasingly form part of unions' bargaining claims, and has warned that it will revive the "community conversations" it used so effectively against Work Choices if the Coalition tries to block Labor's transitional IR bill.
Employers have the right to make more than one attempt to knock out unfair dismissal applications on jurisdictional grounds, following a full bench ruling yesterday.
While Liberal Party MPs are being advised to try to wrong-foot the Rudd Government by pressuring it to fast-track its IR changes, Shadow IR Minister Julie Bishop has given a cool response to the ACTU's call for federal Labor's transition bill to be through the Senate by Easter and has supported AWAs as a pre-Work Choices reform.
