A senior solicitor who is the director of the AI Group's law firm, Ai Group Legal, has the right to represent employers without seeking leave, because he is also the employer organisation's in-house lawyer, a FWC full bench has ruled.
A HR manager could face penalties after a court found she was involved in her employer's contravention of the Fair Work Act when it provided notice to an employee that fell two days short of the statutory requirement.
The FWC has banned a CFMEU official from holding an entry permit for 19 months over his "serious and ugly" behaviour towards an FWBC inspector on a building site last year that was captured on video and played to the Heydon Royal Commission.
In rare public comments by a member of the Fair Work Commission, Vice-President Michael Lawler has rejected allegations or imputations of wrongdoing against him as "demonstrably false and malicious".
The High Court will this week hear Victorian CFMEU leader John Setka's bid for special leave to challenge an appeal court ruling on his defamation claim against Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Sky News.
Two former TWU WA branch leaders breached their fiduciary duties under the Registered Organisations Act when they purchased two $150,000 "luxury utilities", the Heydon Royal Commission has been told today.
The AWU is seeking to terminate a substandard cleaning agreement exposed in the Heydon Royal Commission, while former Victorian branch secretary Cesar Melhem has stepped down as Labor whip in Victoria's upper house, after the inquiry criticised workplace deals struck during his leadership.
A senior employment lawyer found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct for accusing an opposing lawyer of lying and dishonesty has won a re-hearing of his case, after a Victorian Supreme Court ruling.
The NSW Public Service Association says its axing of an assistant secretary position has boosted its war chest to fight the state government's electricity privatisation plans.
The NSW secretary of the firefighters' union, Jim Casey, has survived a challenge by just 11 votes after only 31% of eligible members voted in an election that was declared yesterday.
