Former ACTU leader Greg Combet will replace former Coalition treasurer Peter Costello as chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, necessitating him stepping down from his leadership of the Federal Government's "just transition" agency, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced this morning.
The FWC has refused to grant Ventia an intractable bargaining declaration it sought after workers at outsourced Defence aviation firefighting operations in Queensland rejected its unilateral offer, in the tribunal's first contested IBD case determined by a single member.
The first enforceable undertaking under the FWC's restored registered organisations powers provides for a union to further train its officers on the conduct of elections.
The Federal Court has fined the AWU almost $300,000 for 27,143 breaches of registered organisations laws, including failing to keep accurate membership records for nine years until 2017.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has criticised stevedore DP World for "relying on ministerial intervention" to resolve its bargaining dispute with the MUA, saying he told the company today he has no intention to take such a step.
A CFMEU official has escaped having to personally pay a $7000 fine despite a court accepting that he raised the issue of workers' pay when blocking a non-union contractor's concrete pour.
Awards do not adequately cover visual artists and the "preferable solution" is for the FWC to create a new award, the ACTU says in its submission to the modern awards review, while also recommending the Government extend the Closing Loopholes Bill's "employee-like" definition to non-digital platform workers.
The Federal Court has programmed a 10-day hearing in March next year to determine any compensation for the 1680 Qantas group employees the airline subjected to unlawful adverse action when it outsourced their jobs at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Container terminal operator DP World's refusal to bargain while MUA members take protected action has contributed to a FWC finding that it would not be in the public interest to suspend it for a 90-day "cooling off" period.
The IEU is mourning the passing of former federal president and NSW/ACT secretary John Quessy, who spearheaded its long-running Teachers are Teachers campaign to gain parity between university-trained early childhood teachers and their counterparts in primary schools.
