ABC Commissioner Steve McBurney says the construction watchdog will close if it is defunded, even if the Albanese Labor Government fails to win Senate support for legislation to abolish it.
A tribunal has ordered Queensland Health to pay the ETU a $10,400 penalty for failing to bid for work currently outsourced to contractors, as required by its enterprise agreement with the union.
It will rarely be appropriate for self-represented workers to run class actions, a Federal Court judge has held while moving to declass a representative proceeding brought by a Wilson Security guard on behalf of FIFO colleagues at the North-West Shelf gas project.
The Perrottet Government in NSW says it is moving to massively increase fines for unlawful industrial action to send a "message" ahead of a teachers' strike, while a commissioner who blocked part of a PSA strike says it refused to meaningfully engage with the union on wages.
An ASX-listed mining company that is pursuing a former contracts manager for allegedly misusing confidential information and earning secret profits is seeking to ban access to the details of an explosive Federal Court challenge to his sacking.
The HSU is seeking in a Federal Court action to establish that outsourced kitchen and food services work performed in aged care facilities is covered by the industry's award rather than the lower-paying hospitality award.
The former chief pilot of Virgin Australia has launched legal action over alleged bullying by chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka, ahead of his dismissal last month.
The High Court has today unanimously found that a lawyer diagnosed with PTSD and depression after working in the Victorian public prosecutor's unit that handles s-xual offences, including those involving children, would have cooperated with steps by her employer to shift her to another area of its operations.
The High Court has today unanimously ruled that judges can take into account the CFMMEU's history of contraventions when assessing fines for breaches of industrial laws, clearing the way for the ABCC to seek maximum penalties for relatively minor infractions.
