The ABCC has reviewed its legal expenditure after an "overspend" in the past financial year that included a blowout to almost $11 million in billings for external advice, representing about a third of its $34 million budget.
The ACTU will seek legal advice on whether the High Court's citizenship decision opens the way to challenging a vote in the House of Representatives that failed by a margin of one vote to support the restoration of penalty rates.
An industry entitlements fund says the Turnbull Government's "proper use of benefits" bill could threaten its ability to provide free ambulance and funeral cover to worker members, while an industry skills body is calling for a regulatory impact statement to identify whether the costs to be imposed would exceed benefits.
The FWC has suspended a CFMEU divisional branch leader's entry permit for three months after he raised his hand in a "solidarity symbol" at a senior project manager.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation has lost its IR spokesperson, Senator Malcolm Roberts, as a result of today's High Court ruling, while the Turnbull Government has lost its slim one-seat majority in the Lower House, after the court ruled Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce ineligible to remain in Parliament.
Qube Logistics, Patrick Stevedores and the MUA have proposed a timetable for mediation early next year ahead of hearings in August into the companies' bid to recoup damages from bans on loading and unloading containers at Port Botany this year.
An independent investigator's report that was due today to determine whether Flight Attendants Association national division secretary Andrew Staniforth was to be immediately reinstalled has been delayed until next Wednesday.
The Federal Court has today made a consent order under which the AFP will not pass on documents seized in Tuesday's raids on the AWU, and the Registered Organisations Commission will not accept them, until the union's bid to stop the investigation of the matter has been heard.
The Federal Court has dismissed the nursing union's bid to stop Bupa cutting jobs, finding that 23 potential redundancies in a workforce of 3000 did not constitute a "major" change that would trigger an agreement's consultation clause.
