The NSW Supreme Court has found a former senior employee of a company guilty of contempt of court and that parts of his defence against a confidential information claim should be struck out after he deleted documents from his laptop.
The FWC has revoked three decisions issued last week that terminated Pizza Hut's national and Queensland agreements, saying they were issued "due to administrative error".
The NSW Supreme Court has ruled that it is not unreasonable for social media giant Twitter Inc to ensure a user of its platform that posted highly-sensitive financial information about a company be stopped from posting future tweets, but a workplace lawyer says employers are only likely to follow the same course after carefully weighing up the costs.
The Department of Employment has told a Senate inquiry that it didn't consult unions on the "ensuring integrity" legislation until just two days before its introduction to Parliament.
The Federal Court has today ordered former ABC Commissioner Nigel Hadgkiss to pay the CFMEU an $8,500 fine for his "wrongdoing" when he breached the law "he was required to police", resulting in the dissemination of "false information" on right of entry.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus told a hearing in Melbourne today that the Federal Government’s "ensuring integrity" legislation would impose harsher standards and punishments on unions and their officials than the Corporations Act does to employers.
The ROC has launched an inquiry into the HSU's Tasmanian branch over an alleged "termination payment" provided to former state secretary and current national secretary Chris Brown, while the CEPU has dismissed an ROC investigation into reporting breaches as a scare tactic.
The FWC has refused to grant a protected action ballot for Lion's Castlemaine Perkins brewery workers after finding that United Voice stopped negotiating in good faith when it this month started pressing a non-permitted clause aimed at restricting the use of supplementary labour.
