ACTU television commercial highlights penalty rates, internships; New executive director for HR Nicholls Society; Alleged ISIS-sympathiser's dismissal case in FWC tomorrow; FWBC warns of fines for construction workers attending CFMEU mass meeting "without permission"; Re-run for botched Federal Police union election; "Unfinished business" in quest for safe rates, TWU council hears; and Sharing economy" a misnomer, TWU forum hears.
Lend Lease has secured an order to prevent further industrial action at a strife-torn hospital construction site until the project's scheduled completion in August, but the FWC has stopped short of finding that the CFMEU and CEPU organised workers to walk off the job.
The CFMEU, CEPU and three individual organisers have been fined a combined total of almost $95,000 for encouraging workers at the Ichthys LNG project to stop work and disrupt a "critical" concrete pour in protest at the project's allegedly inadequate "park and ride" facilities.
An FWC full bench has ordered Melbourne's fire brigade to consult with the firefighters union over proposed changes to its recruitment procedures but not over quotas to increase female participation.
Reducing penalty rates, increasing rostering flexibility and boosting the ability of employers to make agreements directly with employees are at the top of employer groups' IR wishlists for the July 2 federal election.
The Federal Court will hold a one-day inquiry on May 26 that will decide whether Victorian public sector union leader Karen Batt will face her first election challenge in 20 years.
The FWC has granted a conditional entry permit for CEPU NSW postal and telecommunications branch secretary Jim Metcher, but has upbraided him for failing to disclose that he allegedly assaulted another senior elected official.
The leadership teams of the the domestic and international divisions of the flight attendants' union have been ousted in ballots declared today by the AEC.
