An employee suspended for refusing to work from home while his bullying allegations were investigated has failed in his bid to rely on state whistleblower legislation to secure injunctions against further disciplinary action, including his sacking.
Fair Work Building and Construction chief executive Leigh Johns has challenged those who say the inspectorate should have intervened in the Grocon Supreme Court proceedings to identify the powers it could have relied upon, while the main players are about to head back for more talks with FWA President, Justice Iain Ross.
Grocon Constructors has shown the Victorian Supreme Court graphic footage of CFMEU protesters pushing back police horses in Melbourne's CBD this morning in its successful bid to extend a ban on union officials coming within 50 metres of the Emporium site.
Queensland's Newman Government has passed legislation to void public sector agreement clauses that provide for job security and regulate contracting-out, give greater scope for lawyers to appear in the State IRC and remove administrative duties from Commission President David Hall.
A tribunal has ordered a man to pay $8000 in compensation to an assembly line worker for sexually harassing him over a period of four months, but their employer escaped liability because it had taken sufficient steps to comply with its policies.
