IR Minister Christian Porter has today introduced legislation that would enable the CFMMEU's mining and energy division to de-merge from the troubled amalgamated union.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers will today file a Federal Court test case for the TWU that alleges the Qantas decision to contract-out ground-handling duties performed by 2000 workers amounted to unlawful adverse action.
The Morrison Government's legislative overhaul of enterprise bargaining ushers in a major "simplification" of the Better Off Overall Test and a 21-day deadline for the FWC to determine agreement applications.
In holding that Qantas need not include prior service with related entities or casual employment when calculating flight attendants' redundancy entitlements, a senior FWC member has accused the FAAA of "cherry picking" to try to prove otherwise.
Labor's caucus has agreed today to support the Morrison Government's legislation to make it easier for unions to de-merge, which will enable the CFMMEU's mining and energy division to depart next year.
A "recidivist" Tasmanian CFMMEU official whose belligerence has cost the union almost $500,000 in fines is finally off the ABCC's hit list, after a court ruled he should personally pay a $20,000 penalty for the latest of his entry breaches, which stretch back to 2015.
A tribunal has approved an employer’s plan to assist women to obtain heavy vehicle licences through a female-only waste truck driver training program.
IR Minister Christian Porter has flagged that the IR omnibus legislation to be introduced tomorrow will seek to further extend the workplace flexibilities rolled out as part of the JobKeeper wage subsidy beyond the current sunset of late March.
The Morrison Government's IR reform bill will introduce jail terms of up to four years for the worst underpayments and a new way of setting fines for big business, where penalties will be based on a multiple of two or three times the benefit obtained or a $666,600 fine.
In what the TWU expects will prove a landmark case on gig workers' rights, the union is underwriting a compensation claim against Uber on behalf of the widow and child of a rider killed while delivering food in Sydney in September.
