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.
The Ai Group today expressed strong objections to a Workplace Express article stating that an employer acted on its "incorrect" legal advice to a worksite's project manager, who subsequently refused entry to a union official.
Two companies that claimed they acted on legal advice from the Australian Industry Group have been fined almost $25,000 for refusing to allow a CFMEU official entry to a building site.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has asked the Registered Organisations Commission to refer to the Australian Federal Police the leaking of information about the raids on the AWU.
