The UFU is facing renewed internal discord, with its Queensland branch intent on severing ties with the federally-registered body due to dissatisfaction over its operations under national secretary Peter Marshall.
Qantas and the TWU will hold private talks on a contentious plan to outsource ground-handling work at the national carrier, before reporting back to the Fair Work Commission next week.
The FWC has held that DP World was not entitled to deduct pay from Port Botany workers who refused to work on a ship due to safety concerns, while finding it should provide half pay to those stood down after it received prohibition notices.
The CEPU has hailed a Federal Court ruling that it says "upholds the fundamental right" against self-incrimination in penalty proceedings the ABCC brought against the union, two officials and 25 individual workers over alleged unlawful industrial action.
Employers that engage in deliberate wage theft face jail terms of up to a decade and 14 years when fraud is involved after the passage of legislation in Queensland's Parliament today, while employees under federal and state laws will have access to what the Palaszczuk Government promises will be a "simple, quick and low-cost" recovery process for underpayments.
FWC suppresses employee signatory names; Tribunal backs AWU's coronavirus-driven delay for national conference; and Former union leader to chair NSW compensation insurance body.
Granting unions a majority support determination for a highly casualised group of maintenance workers on offshore oil and gas facilities, the FWC has rejected an employer's claim they sought to "rig" the outcome by cherry-picking the best time to circulate a petition.
ASU assistant national secretary Linda White, arguably Australian unions' savviest analyst of the aviation industry, intends to step down from her role in coming weeks.
Community service organisations around the country could be forced to choose between slashing up to 12,000 jobs or cutting workers' remuneration by up to $15,000 a year if funding for an eight-year-old federal pay equity supplement is not extended beyond December, a research paper has warned.
The CFMMEU's mining and energy division has threatened to boycott the union's national operations in protest at "payback and retribution" against the manufacturing division by construction and general division Victorian branch secretary, John Setka.
