A meeting of the ACTU's executive on Wednesday will review the CFMEU construction division's response to allegations that its Victorian branch has been infiltrated by criminals, while the State's Premier said this morning she will ask the Federal Government to review construction agreements and cancel them "if it's necessary to prevent criminal activity".
The CFMEU's construction and general division has this morning resolved to put its Victorian branch "into administration" and to "immediately" start an investigation, overseen by a "leading legal figure" into "any credible allegations of wrongdoing".
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has warned the CFMEU it must act "immediately and effectively" to address "abhorrent" allegations of criminal conduct within its largest construction and general division branches, after he asked his department to advise him on his powers, including deregistration and putting in administrators.
Beleauguered CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka pledged in February to retire and last night he pulled the trigger, ahead of a series of reports appearing in Nine publications and television this weekend.
The Federal Court has this afternoon rejected a Qantas bid for a finding that flight crew union the AIPA unreasonably withheld permission to allocate newly-recruited pilots to its A380 super-jumbos.
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The Federal Court is set to run an eight-month trial of a dedicated national "list" for general protections matters, Chief Justice Debra Mortimer has told practitioners.
The FWC has found an agreement only permits representation for those initiating a dispute, ruling that it must observe "limitations and rights" in dispute resolution procedures that might be "contrary" to usual practice under the Fair Work Act.
A FWC full bench has arbitrated a narrow range of disputed matters including hours and pay in its second intractable bargaining workplace determination, for waste giant Cleanaway, after it found the company withheld information about individual bargaining representatives, undermining the union's claim that certain terms had been agreed.
A four-member FWC full bench has resisted unions' push to insert a detailed "right to disconnect" clause in modern awards, but has also rejected employers' minimalist term, opting instead for a draft provision that sticks closely to the legislative mandate.
