Two new information sheets issued by the Registered Organisations Commission spell out the penalties for reprisals against whistleblowers and details of looming benefits disclosure requirements for bargaining representatives.
An FWC member has declined to award costs to a prominent community legal centre's general manager despite finding she had been capriciously ousted by the management committee during a restructure and ordering her reinstatement.
An FWC full bench has confirmed that the tribunal can rely on evidence given to royal commissions, this month rejecting former NUW NSW official Nick Belan's challenge to findings that his admissions under oath helped establish his financial misconduct and justified dismissal.
The ROC has told the ASU's national office that it might have undervalued its Melbourne and Canberra property holdings by $2.6 million in its 2016-17 financial report, but the union maintains that it complied with accounting standards in writing-down their value.
The head of HR at a major university has had her bullying case against "very senior employees" dismissed after failing to meet several deadlines to provide material to the FWC.
CPSU national secretary Nadine Flood has been re-elected for another term after decisively knocking out challenger Amelio Sarchese for the third consecutive time, while the rest of the executive has been returned unopposed.
The FWC has ruled on the out-of-hours conduct of a maintenance worker who claimed he was acting in self-defence when he ended up in a fight after a "horsing-around" passer-by took his cowboy hat, leading to his expulsion from the giant Wheatstone LNG project.
In a decision further clarifying naming protocols for complaint and litigation respondents, a court has ruled that a law firm's individual partners need not be identified in a discrimination case brought by a former employee.
Employers opposing the merger of the CFMEU, MUA and TCFU have warned the FWC that the unions would use their combined might to cripple the resource and construction industries, but they argue that in any case more than 45 pending penalty proceedings should legally disqualify them from amalgamating.
