A One Key labour hire worker's decision to accept a job with a subsidiary when his employer became insolvent has stymied his bid to quash a greenfields deal struck between the CFMMEU and another subsidiary, as his lawyers clock-up registrations for a multi-million dollar class action.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ordered the publisher of The Australian to pay $200,000 in penalties and costs for a "very serious" contempt of court when it mentioned the prior convictions of Victorian CFMMEU leader John Setka while he was facing committal proceedings for a blackmail charge.
An FWC full bench has ruled unfair Esso's sacking of a union delegate for calling a contractor a "f-cking scab" after taking into account that the company's HR manager gave evidence that such a one-off infraction generally did not warrant dismissal.
The FWC has dismissed an ATO employee's bid for an anti-bullying order, accepting that by moving him to another department the organisation had reduced the risks of any recurrence of the alleged conduct.
Workers at Alcoa's operations in Western Australia are set to receive modest pay increases under a proposed three-year enterprise agreement after winning improvements in job security.
Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh hopes the "more thoughtful" sections of the business community will welcome the party's election pledge to require listed companies to disclose the ratio of their chief executives' pay to that of their median employees.
Toll Transport has failed in an attempt to have an anti-bullying application thrown out by the FWC, which disagreed with the company's assessment that it was destined to fail.
The FWC has increased casual retail workers' penalty rates for weekday evening shifts and Saturdays but cut the rates for Sunday shiftworkers in a decision welcomed by unions but described by employers as "disappointing".
An FWC full bench has quashed a deal after accepting CFMMEU submissions that it would have allowed workers to be covered by future agreements ahead of its nominal expiry date, but has stopped short of finding that the tribunal should have heard from the union at first instance.
Engineers and scientists are planning to join air traffic and administrative employees for a month of protected action at Airservices Australia in October, with the unions claiming the public sector bargaining policy forces workers to take industrial action just to retain existing conditions.
