The Australian Mines and Metals Association is challenging whether three union organisers are employed by the employee organisations that have applied for their right-of-entry permits, in what appears to be an attempt to test the structure of a union alliance.
IFM settles UK harassment case; Builder excluded for flouting payment security law; O'Dwyer leaves gaps on Safe Work Australia board; and NTEU takes university to court over Ramsay.
A full Federal Court has upheld a finding that agreement-sanctioned union stopwork meetings can be freely used to delay and disrupt business as part of a campaign strategy, but has increased fines for the CFMMEU's coercion of head contractor Hutchison by almost 30%.
A dispute between Macquarie Bank and 15 former employees who allege they were underpaid more than $2.6 million looks destined for a full hearing after the Federal Circuit Court rebuffed the parties' request for mediation by a judge.
High Court rebuffs "two longs" special leave bid; Relativity "decompression" proposal needs to go back to drawing board, say retailers; and Women's pay outpacing men's in recent wage slowdown, says report.
Unions have praised WA's McGowan Government for committing to recommendations in a ministerial IR review that will enable the State IRC to make equal remuneration and anti-bullying orders for workers not covered by the federal system and expand the definition of "employee" to include more private sector workers.
A managing director who is pursuing a building company over allegedly unpaid income tax, leave and superannuation is facing a novel cross-claim for restitution of his salary, amid allegations that he operated a competing business and took unlawful industrial action when he failed to fulfil his duties.
The FWC has made a bargaining order compelling the AWU to go against the wishes of its members and meet with an oil and gas refiner to negotiate a new agreement.
The calling of the Federal election has left several pieces of IR legislation stranded on the notice paper of the old parliament, including a push to apply a public interest test to union mergers
The ACTU's 2019 "Change the Government, Change the Rules" campaign for the May 18 federal election turns on "persuasive conversations" with a core group of undecided union members living in marginal seats.
