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Government to legislate coal mining LSL changes

The Albanese Government claims it will ensure fairer calculation of long service leave for casual coal mineworkers, as part of a Protecting Worker Entitlements Bill to be introduced to Parliament this week.

Surveyors say CFMMEU pressing them to sign up

Professional associations representing Victoria's surveyors have joined forces to push back against the CFMMEU's construction division allegedly applying unlawful pressure on their members to join the union, hindering work on major projects.

$126K of personal fines imposed on 8 CFMMEU officials

The Federal Court is continuing to order CFMMEU officials to pay penalties out of their own pockets, rejecting arguments that two first offenders and one organiser no longer employed by the union should have their fines suspended.

Drivers shunted into COVID-19 siding fail to win lost pay

In a decision exploring what constitutes a disciplinary investigation, a FWC full bench has quashed a finding that a public transport agency must pay a group of train drivers blocked from attending work after failing to comply with its COVID-19 vaccination policy.


HR manager involved in breaches, not just a "conduit": Judge

A dumpling chain's HR manager was knowingly concerned in its Fair Work Act contraventions and "did not simply act as a conduit", the Federal Court has held in a liability judgment, finding she also instructed and trained a colleague in a payroll scam using both accurate and inaccurate records.

IR statutes prefer registered unions: SDA

Australian workplace laws have a "legislative preference" for registered unions to act as a "specific vehicle" for workers seeking to enforce their rights under industrial instruments, the Federal Court has heard.

Banks facing court challenge over reasonable hours

The FSU has launched a Federal Court test case against NAB over alleged unreasonable additional working hours in what the union warns is "just the start" for the industry.

"Extraordinary" zero-penalty push shocks judge

A judge has blasted a company's request for no penalty for flouting IR laws, describing it as "one of the most extraordinary submissions, if not the most extraordinary submission" on fines he had heard in more than 15 years.

Burke wrong on Golden Arches class action: Lawyers

Shine Lawyers claims IR Minister Tony Burke has made "incorrect factual and legal assertions" about a RAFFWU-backed McDonald's class action in which he is seeking to intervene to explain why a competing SDA class action is "the one that should be allowed to proceed".