A Sri Lankan-born correctional services officer whose supervisor took him off the roster at a jail’s control centre because she said she couldn’t understand him has won a racial discrimination case.
ABC Commissioner John Lloyd has this afternoon written to the CFMEU, saying he had not alleged that a union official threatened to kill an ABCC inspector, but the union says he hasn't gone far enough.
Victoria Police has charged a Melbourne man with assaulting and threatening to kill a public official, but the CFMEU says the ABCC was wrong to allege a union official was involved in the incident.
The NSW IRC has adjourned an application by the CFMEU to include long service leave provisions in a state award, pending a Federal Court appeal by 16 mining companies on the Work Choices laws' exclusion of state powers.
Parties wanting to challenge agreements approved by the Workplace Authority under the new fairness test would have to go to the High Court, according to legal advice to the ACTU from Maurice Blackburn Cashman.
Women employees are paid less than men under Work Choices AWAs, according to consultations of 60 women's organisations by the National Foundation for Australian Women.
Greens Senator Bob Brown says that if Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd wins power later this year, he could call a double dissolution within 18 months if the Coalition maintains the Senate numbers to block the reversal of Work Choices.
The ACTU says up to a million low-income workers face real pay cuts, after a Federal Government submission urged the Fair Pay Commission to take into account the Budget's tax cuts and increases in benefits.
The Greens, which may control the next Senate, are welcoming union donations to its election campaign against ALP "wavering" on IR reform, after Labor's decision to preserve the ABCC triggered a rare split with the ACTU.
