A key Senate crossbench party, the Jacquie Lambie Network, has introduced legislation to enable the CFMEU's manufacturing division to proceed with its thwarted attempt to de-merge from the amalgamated union.
Media host and writer Antoinette Lattouf has failed to have the ABC's jurisdictional objections to her unlawful dismissal case referred directly to a FWC full bench, despite arguing that she will appeal an unfavourable finding and that she "anticipates" that the broadcaster will do the same.
The FWC has suspended the entry permit of the CFMEU construction division's sole Wollongong organiser over a "moderately serious" breach soon after the union engaged him five years ago, and which late last year earned him a $4000 fine.
Friends and colleagues across politics and the union movement are remembering Victorian Labor senator and former ASU national assistant secretary Linda White as a torch bearer for equality and justice, and a fierce advocate for workers and women.
A senior FWC member has granted unions a protected action ballot period of eight working days despite an employer's claim his decision in Nilsen established a 10-day minimum for electronic voting, and its concerns a shorter timeframe will hamper preparations for the s448A compulsory conference.
A tribunal has refused to extend time for a worker's three-months-late FEG claim but expressed its "sympathy" for the COVID-19 "chaos" and her employer's delayed notification of her entitlements that led to her late application.
A worker has failed to convince the FWC that permitting "billion-dollar company" Rio Tinto to engage an external lawyer to defend a general protections claim would unfairly disadvantage him.
A full Federal Court has overturned a ruling that the CFMEU induced and had knowing involvement in major construction company J Hutchinson's unlawful boycott of a non-union waterproofing subcontractor.
Finance sector employers are failing to properly train their workers to recognise and report sexual harassment, and are underestimating the extent of the problem, a new FSU survey has found.
The FWC has refused the AMWU's request to pause an employer's use of a new biometric facial scanning system for clocking on and off, because the company agreed that until the dispute concludes, workers can continue to use a manual timekeeping system.