Class action law firm Adero says it believes labour supplier One Key Workforce wound up owing more than 2000 mineworkers on casual contracts far more than the $38 million sum estimated by administrators, as it prepares to file a claim holding its parent company liable as their "true employer".
Note: This article has been updated with a clarification about former ministerial staffer Ben Davies.
A year after AFP raids on the AWU's offices, the union says that its private investigators have failed to locate the former chief-of staff to then Employment Minister Michaelia Cash to serve a subpoena on him.
A full Federal Court has overruled a finding that a reasonable overtime hours clause in a coal loader's enterprise agreement gave it the power to increase extra weekly time from two hours to almost nine.
Retail union RAFFWU says Woolworths Supermarkets workers' 93% vote for a new agreement will not affect plans to challenge its approval, nor its continued bid to terminate the retailer's nominally-expired 2012 deal before the new one clears the FWC.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has kicked off a series of major rallies, telling participants that unions have to convince politicians that industry-wide bargaining is "normal" in advanced economies.
The High Court has today confirmed that it will refer a Unions NSW challenge to restrictions on spending by third party campaigners to a full hearing in December, with South Australia the first of several states expected to intervene.
An FWC full bench has granted a Qantas flight attendant leave to appeal his dismissal, finding that the Commission might have failed to properly explain his consumption of the equivalent of 14 standard drinks, rendering him unfit for duty.
An industrial tribunal has rejected a union's argument that allowing a large employer to use an external lawyer will render a general protections case "unnecessarily adversarial".
In an important interlocutory ruling, the Federal Court has today restrained mining giant BHP Coal from stopping a reinstated labour hire mineworker returning to the job at its Bowen Basin coal mine.
A Federal Court judge has questioned the "wisdom or fairness" of laws requiring employers to subtract four hours' pay for as little as 10 minutes unprotected action, after finding the AWU breached the Fair Work Act when an official asked a BlueScope manager not to dock returning strikers for starting a shift late.
