The flight attendants' union has left itself open to a civil penalty after the FWC's general manager refused to extend time for it to lodge documents for its elections.
The Turnbull Government will tomorrow re-introduce legislation to re-establish the ABCC, aiming to win enough support from the Senate crossbenchers for it be passed by early March.
Doubts remain over $31 million in entitlements owed to 800 current and former Queenland Nickel employees unless the company's administrators can secure fresh investment in coming months.
The AWU is calling for the corporate regulator to investigate whether Queensland Nickel breached corporations laws and whether owner Clive Palmer is acting as a "shadow director", as part of the union's push to secure members' outstanding entitlements.
The AMWU has failed in its bid to obtain an entry permit for an organiser involved in the notorious Westgate Bridge dispute because imposing additional permit conditions would amount to "no more than shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted", says the FWC.
An FWC presidential member has expressed "wonder" at having to reject an agreement for a major labour hire company that turned the simple process of providing employees with a bargaining representation notice into a "debacle".
The FWC has ruled that a company's enterprise agreement obliges it provide "meaningful work" to redeployees and operates as an exception to the general rule that there is no common law right to be provided with work.
The Federal Court has this morning ordered former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson to pay about $458,000 in compensation and fines for inappropriate spending during his reign.
The High Court has denied special leave for a Roy Morgan research subsidiary to appeal a full Federal Court ruling that upheld penalties against it for sham contracting.
