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The Baird Coalition Government has revealed plans to introduce legislation to shift the judicial functions of the NSW IRC to the State's Supreme Court.

Former Fair Work Commission Vice-President Michael Lawler's conduct on the ABC's Four Corners program was "far below" what the public was entitled to expect from somebody in his position, according to the silk who investigated his conduct.

Employment Minister Michaelia Cash has confirmed this afternoon that FWC Vice President Michael Lawler has resigned.

WA Attorney-General Michael Mischin has appointed two lawyers to the State's IRC.

The Victorian Supreme Court has established an employment and IR list to streamline case management and expedite matters coming to trial.

FWC Vice President Michael Lawler has used a secretly-recorded phone conversation with tribunal president Iain Ross to challenge his claim that he never said the besieged member had an unlimited entitlement to sick leave.

Former NSW ETU leader Bernie Rordan says he was warned that litigation by a fellow union secretary could prevent his appointment to the Fair Work Commission in 2012.

The Abbott Government has appointed to the High Court the Federal Court judge Michelle Gordon, who last month was part of a full bench that struck down the Coalition's attempt to exclude foreign workers on offshore resources projects from Australian labour standards.

Former Liberal Senator Gary Humphries will take up his role as a full-time deputy president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from next year, while the Federal Government has also made Productivity Commission appointments and the South Australian Government has announced two deputy presidents for its new employment tribunal.

The Abbott government should overhaul the "top heavy" structure of the Fair Work Commission, according to the Australian Mines and Metals Association.