The Fair Work Commission adjourned its inquiry into HSU Victorian No 1 branch entry permit applications this morning after branch general manager Kimberley Kitching indicated she would seek an urgent Federal Court order to compel the tribunal to rule on her argument that it has no jurisdiction to conduct the review.
Cbus Super has told the Heydon Royal Commission that it dismissed the employee who lied about providing confidential membership information to the CFMEU, while the inquiry has confirmed that a taskforce into links between unions and organised crime is in the "early stage of the planning process".
Young people and overseas workers together lodged more than a third of the 24,103 complaints the Fair Work Ombudsman received during 2013-2014, while the agency's significant online presence continued to grow, with11.7 million visits to its website during the year.
Sydney business identity Jim Byrnes has rejected assertions that he was using the Heydon Royal Commission as platform to "destroy" labour hire operator George Alex to avoid paying debt outstanding from a commercial dispute.
A Cbus Super employee has been forced to admit lying to the Heydon Royal Commission about passing on confidential membership information to CFMEU NSW branch secretary Brian Parker, after the inquiry produced phone and taxi records that directly contradicted her evidence.
Senator George Brandis has today announced that the Heydon inquiry will be given until the end of 2015 to produce its report, after the royal commissioner told the attorney-general that some union officials appeared to regard their organisations as immune from "any social or community standard shared by other Australians".
The MUA is using its industrial muscle to extract up to $1 million from employers for training funds that the Heydon Royal Commission acknowledges are legitimate, the inquiry heard today.
