Despite the extraordinary measures the Federal Government has taken to arm construction industry employers against CFMEU moves to reopen existing agreements, negotiations in Victoria are continuing, with both sides confident of securing a deal.
The CPSU-SPSF will seek to persuade the states to bring hundreds of thousands of employees of state-owned corporations back into direct Crown employment and remove them from the reach of likely changes to the WR Act based on the corporations power.
The NSW IRC, ruling on an unfair contract claim, has ordered outsourced service provider EDS to provide seven months pay to an American expatriate consultant who worked on the company's $4 billion Commonwealth Bank contract.
An employer is appealing the NSW IRC's reinstatement of an employee following a ruling that appears to make it easier to win interim orders to put a worker back in their job.
The CFMEU has failed in a bid to throw out the Building Industry Taskforce's attempt to revoke the entry permits of construction and general division NSW branch officials Martin Wyer and David Glass.
Construction unions could face fines of up to $110,000, uncapped damages and sequestration of their assets for unlawful industrial action – including past action – under the retrospective enforcement provisions of the Cole legislation, which will be introduced to Parliament next week, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews confirmed today.
To close the gap between Australian and US economic growth, Australia needs to cut minimum wages, drive people with disabilities off benefits and boost vocational education, according to a groundbreaking international benchmarking report by the OECD.
The Federal Court will tomorrow begin hearing the AWU's claim that a Victorian mushroom farm applied duress to persuade casual pickers to sign AWAs, and that it discriminated against workers who refused to sign based on their union membership and entitlement to award benefits.
