With only eight weeks until same-job, same-pay orders can take effect, the MEU is continuing to put coal mining majors and their labour suppliers on notice that it won't tolerate two-tier workforces, launching new claims against companies including Peabody Energy and Workpac that came before before FWC president Adam Hatcher yesterday.
Productivity in the private sector dropped sharply in the June quarter as hours worked and real labour costs increased, according to ABS national accounts data released today.
The FWC has refused to extend time for a convicted child s-x offender sacked after his employer discovered his use of a pseudonym to conceal his past, rejecting a psychologist's "contradictory" evidence about his capacity to complete the necessary forms.
Former leaders of the CFMEU construction division's Queensland branch have made good on their threat to launch a High Court challenge to Federal Government legislation placing union branches under administration, today filing a special leave application arguing the laws are unconstitutional and in breach of separation of power principles.
ASU assistant national secretary Emeline Gaske today takes over the helm of the union from departing national secretary Robert Potter, who is moving on to take up a role focussed on net zero investment and jobs.
The TWU's dysfunctional Victoria/Tasmania branch has been "disbanded" after an investigation led by a former judge confirmed "serious" operational and cultural problems.
The FWC has given distribution giant Metcash and its on-hire labour providers six weeks to say whether they will oppose a SDA and UWU claim for same-job, same-pay orders locking in annual pay rises of up to $12,700.
Newly-installed CFMEU construction division administrator Mark Irving KC has told members that "militancy in accordance with the [Fair Work] Act" is not unlawful and that the union will not make political donations or take "positions" at ALP conferences while he is in charge.
The FWC has upheld a law firm's dismissal of a solicitor accused of "gaming" its timekeeping system to boost a junior colleague's billable hours and telling an opposing practitioner his client was a "c-nt".
A self-represented on-hire mineworker looks likely to win same-job, same-pay orders for labour hire employees at South32's Cannington silver, lead and zinc mine in Queensland, after labour supplier TP Human Capital told the FWC it would not oppose it.
