The ROC has resolved to seek penalties against the AWU in the Federal Court, after an 18-month investigation concluded it had committed 27,000 breaches over nine years of obligations to keep accurate membership records and "significantly overstated" the real numbers.
A new report says that wage theft in Australian freight shipping is costing seafarers about $65 million a year and necessitates changes to the Fair Work Act and greater powers and cooperation for regulators.
A CFMMEU organiser who engaged in threatening and coercive conduct, including stopping a concrete pour, has failed to convince the FWC to renew his entry permit, despite presenting evidence that he had recently completed training on the error of his ways.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has initiated legal action against the University of Melbourne, alleging it coerced and took adverse action against two casual academics to stop them claiming payment for work they performed.
The Albanese Government consulted with unions on its plan to abolish the ABCC before it held meetings with state and territory IR Ministers and the National Workplace Relations Consultative Council, according to information tabled in the Federal Parliament.
Key independent Senator David Pocock says he laughed when recently described as a kingmaker, preferring the role of "peacebroker in the 47th Parliament", ahead of the upper house today considering an Opposition bid to strike down the regulation that guts the ABCC's powers.
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.
The revised national construction code, which applies from today, takes away the power to grant exemptions and exclusion sanctions from ABC Commissioner Steve McBurney and invests them in Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
The ABCC says it is looking forward to providing further details of its pre-election meetings with the MBA, in response to a request by IR Minister Tony Burke, after a FOI request revealed discussions about anti-CFMMEU television commercials that urged Labor to retain the building watchdog.
The Andrews Government has responded to IR Victoria's review of child employment legislation by introducing amendments to broaden the definition of employment, simplify the licensing system and extend its coverage to not-for-profit organisations.