Employers have warned a Victorian parliamentary inquiry that they will seek to reduce wages, benefits or hours if a new state-wide portable long service leave scheme is implemented, while unions have provided detailed outlines of model schemes.
"Tennis tragic" cops serve from the FWC over dismissal; Grain handling industry gets new modern award; and CFMEU expresses concern over Hanna allegations.
The Heydon Royal Commission is investigating whether major building company Mirvac paid part of the cost of building a luxury family home for the former national and Queensland president of the CFMEU's construction and general division, David Hanna.
A Victorian Government inquiry that begins today will consider introducing a licensing system to accredit labour hire agencies, and will also look into insecure work, visa abuse and sham contracting arrangements.
The Senate this afternoon voted down Labor's motion to address the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove, with a request to remove Dyson Heydon as head of the royal commission into unions.
A telephone intercept played to the Heydon Royal Commission today referred to a former CFMEU organiser in the ACT, Halafihi "Fihi" Kivalu as having "touched" an employer for payments.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has rejected union applications for him to stand down from the inquiry on the grounds of apprehended bias, while acknowledging they could still apply to a court to make such a ruling.
Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon will defer until Monday his ruling on whether to stand down as Royal Commissioner following a late request from the ACTU this afternoon.
