CFMMEU mining and energy division Queensland district president Stephen Smyth has denied allegations that he misused his union credit card, maintaining that he repaid some items while others were legitimate work-related expenses.
The Federal Court has today rejected separate challenges by Lendlease and CFMMEU to the construction code's "grammatically nonsensical" prohibition of union logos and paraphernalia, such as the Eureka Flag.
The Federal Court has applied the "precautionary principle" in accepting the FWO's view on the process for calculating underpayments for 19,000 salaried Woolworths employees, while it has also indicated that jointly managing the matter with a similar Coles case "would be useful".
Victoria's wage inspectorate is prosecuting a company that makes digital learning programs for young children for 48 breaches of the State's child employment laws when it allegedly engaged 23 minors under 15 without obtaining mandatory permits.
A sales director allegedly dismissed just five hours after he told his chief operating officer that he intended to take unpaid parental leave on the birth of his two surrogate children is seeking compensation and a pecuniary penalty for alleged unlawful adverse action, but the company says the claim is baseless.
The MUA is suing Qube and its IR general manager over alleged reckless misrepresentations that wharfies do not accrue long service leave from their earlier periods of casual employment and that it is calculated according to hours rather than years of service.
An accountant previously held to have s-xually harassed a supervisor is now challenging his dismissal from a new job as a pricing coordinator at Bunnings, accusing it of discriminating against him with "outright vengeful intent" when it became aware of his history.
The CFMMEU says that mine workers are "angry and dismayed" at a decision against laying charges over a 2020 explosion at a Queensland coal mine in which five labour hire workers sustained serious burns.
A former chief sustainability officer is suing a major property group for more than $800,000 – including a retention payment – in an adverse action case accusing it of dressing-up a post-takeover redundancy as a dismissal to avoid paying his full entitlements.
