South Australia's Malinauskas Government is likely to soon secure passage of legislation establishing a portable long service leave scheme for the community services sector, with potential to build on it to include other sectors in future.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority claims in its court bid to disqualify CFMEU manufacturing division national secretary Michael O'Connor that he failed to prioritise his duties as director of First Super when negotiating to extend a contract for union services that upped fees by 5% and came with a $350,000 "roll over" hit.
The Federal Court this Friday will hear the HSU's urgent interlocutory application to put its Victorian No 1 branch into administration, after the union filed claims that branch leader Diana Asmar threatened to kill, sack and expose an employee who allegedly blew the whistle on her alleged misappropriation of funds.
A full Federal Court has overturned a ruling that Sydney Trains unlawfully discriminated against a trainee driver it sacked for failing to disclose that she had ADHD and autism, finding a judge relied on a "number of interrelated assumptions" unsupported by evidence.
The CFMEU construction division's Victorian branch has been infiltrated by bikies and organised crime figures, and "caught up in a cycle of lawlessness", according to preliminary findings of a union-commissioned probe released today by administrator Mark Irving KC.
The FWC has extended time for a worker's one-day-late unfair dismissal claim, finding his employer's "misleading" letter confirming his sacking resulted in his representative miscalculating the deadline.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has accepted an enforceable undertaking from the TWU after a whistleblower exposed the Victorian branch's practice of retaining resigned members on its register for up to three years, rather than the 28 days allowed under the Registered Organisations Act.
The FWC's bid to develop an award clause removing impediments to working from home looks to be a slow burn, with a hearing likely next June following a possible employee survey.
The Albanese Government has won passage without amendment of legislation to establish an independent body to investigate complaints about workplace conduct involving MPs, senators and parliamentary workers.
