The CFMEU has begun legal action in the ACT Supreme Court alleging the Federal Police taped a private phone call between a CFMEU official and a former ACT Police Minister's office and then leaked it to the media.
A former Toll employee accused of deliberately wearing its uniforms in far-right nationalist forums to damage its brand must return more than 15 items of clothing and stop publishing videos in which he wears its logo while criticising Muslims, same-sex marriage and the company.
Former Australia Post chief executive Ahmed Fahour says he was acting out of concern for his national compensation manager's welfare rather than acceding to union demands when he sacked him and shut down his cost-saving project the same day he received a call from an "angry" union leader with whom he'd previously had hostile exchanges.
Information Commissioner Tim Pilgrim has taken into account CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch leader John Setka's threats to ABCC inspectors at a recent rally in finding it against the public interest to disclose the identities and contact details of the watchdog's personnel that the union sought under FoI provisions.
Slater & Gordon has lost a major union client in the same week that shareholders approved a corporate restructuring which will see control of the listed firm pass to a US hedge fund.
The ACTU says a High Court decision that makes it harder for unions to take protected industrial action has made Australia's workplace laws "much more oppressive" at a time when strikes are already at record lows.
A home-based sales representative has been compensated after the FWC found that he was sacked within a day of receiving a "manifestly unreasonable" ultimatum to pack up his life in Byron Bay and return to work in his employer's Sydney office.
The FWC has confirmed it will conduct a hearing on the CFMEU, MUA and TCFU merger on February 2 in Melbourne, subject to any Federal Court application for an inquiry into the unions' ballots within 30 days of their declaration.
