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A project delivery and maintenance contractor took adverse action against a former union official when it refused to employ him at a major project site because of his background as a unionist and concerns over his former "adversarial" views on the project, the Federal Court has found.

The income and compensation caps for unfair dismissal claims will increase from July 1 to $138,900 and $69,450.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is pursuing the NUW for losses incurred by Woolworths as a result of alleged unlawful industrial action last year at two of the retailer's distribution centres in Melbourne.

A fire brigade captain and former HR manager who appeared in a campaign pamphlet for a candidate in last year's NSW election was not victimised when his employer reprimanded him, the NSW IRC has found.

Convenience store chain 7-Eleven claims it has handed over almost $700,000 to 21 underpaid employees since it moved its rectification process in-house, coinciding with the FWO securing its largest penalty against one of the company's franchisees for conduct such as repaying employees then demanding they hand the money back.

The director of a security company that knowingly and deliberately underpaid eight casual security guards by more than $20,000 over a three month period must personally repay the employees after what the FWO is hailing as a "precedent-setting" Federal Circuit Court ruling.

The Productivity Commission has canvassed the "radical" option of providing a "universal basic income" to redistribute wealth as a response to digital disruption of the economy.

The FWC has adjourned until mid-August an application to establish a union to cover Korean businesses and workers.

A second-term Turnbull Government will adopt the "overwhelming majority" of the Heydon Royal Commission's recommendations, including outlawing "corrupting benefits" such as those involved in the AWU-Cleanevent deal and giving courts the power to disqualify repeat-offender union officials, Employment Minister Michaelia Cash said today.

Victoria should establish portable long-service schemes for the community sector, contract cleaners and the security industry, a state parliamentary inquiry has recommended.