The AMWU, AWU and FSU suffered the most precipitous membership declines among large unions over the past 13 years, while the Police Federation and the ANMF made the biggest gains, according to a new parliamentary library background paper that draws on Registered Organisations Commission data.
The Registered Organisations Commission had 15 "open" matters on its books in the middle of the year that involved protected disclosures by whistleblowers, according to its annual report.
Toll's failure to specify that it would not recognise a worker's prior service with a labour hire company has left it open to his unfair dismissal claim, with the FWC finding he met the minimum employment period as the transfer of his work established a connection between his new and old employer.
The NSW Court of Appeal has found that former HSU leader and ex-Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson is not a fit and proper person to remain on the roll of Australian lawyers maintained by the State Supreme Court.
The ACTU has accused Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker of breaching workplace laws by making false and misleading statements about next week's national protest rallies, and is demanding she retract them.
The FWC has rejected employers' claims that the CFMMEU only made "superficial" changes to its logs of claims after the tribunal found it had been pattern bargaining against two mobile crane companies, in further reasons for approving a protected action ballot.
Class action law firm Adero says it plans to ask the Federal Court to make "common fund orders" in its other major IR cases, after achieving a significant breakthrough in winning one for a multi-million-dollar face-off with Airservices Australia on behalf of senior public servants.
