A CFMEU delegate coerced and made false and misleading statements in a bid to convince a non-member contractor to join the union in September 2006, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
The AMWU told the AIRC yesterday that it intended to use the award modernisation process to "get back what was taken away" by Work Choices. It also said unions had reached "a high level of agreement" with metals employers and that only 10 items remained in dispute.
A supermarket trolley collection company has been fined $120,000 fine for underpaying vulnerable workers - who were given deliberately complex employment contracts - more than $100,000.
The AMMA has prepared a draft modern award for the mining industry that the AWU claims contains terms and conditions "so inferior" to those in existing awards that the document should be given "minimal weight" by the AIRC.
In an important confidential information ruling, the England & Wales High Court has ordered a former employee to hand over all of the client information he had allegedly transferred to the database of a professional networking site.
Significant differences between employers and unions over the coverage, scope and pay structures of future awards have emerged as the AIRC today began its first consultations on the priority modern awards.
DEEWR seeking senior manager to establish Fair Work Australia; $22,000 penalty for negligent underpayment; New secretary for NUW in Queensland; and New road freight tribunal within WA IRC.
A full bench of the AIRC has overturned an earlier finding that a woman who returned letters unopened and repeatedly failed to contact her employer while on sick leave then workers' compensation leave had abandoned her employment.
At a time when the building industry unions are stepping up their campaign to have the ABCC abolished, the construction industry watchdog has released a report that found its presence and powers, along with earlier changes to IR laws, resulted in a 10% productivity increase in the construction sector last year.
NSW early childhood centres and pre-schools that relied on Work Choices to shield them from paying wage increases due under a consent award are now facing backpay claims of up to 9% following a Federal Court ruling today.
