CFMEU construction and general division secretary John Sutton has avoided compulsory removal from office, after a court yesterday accepted his guilty plea on two criminal charges of malicious damage but decided against convicting him.
Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock will by early December introduce legislation amending the Disability Discrimination Act to make it lawful for employers to discriminate against drug addicts.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews plans this month to introduce his legislation to provide federal award coverage to hundreds of thousands of Victorian workers, despite failing to reach agreement with the Bracks Government on the terms of the deal.
A CFMEU construction and general division NSW branch organiser has been imprisoned for three months for perjury, after a court convicted him for giving false evidence to the Cole Royal Commission into the building and construction industry last year.
CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch organiser John Setka will appeal against today's finding by the Melbourne Magistrates Court that he was guilty of the criminal offence of threatening or intimidating a Grocon manager who was to give evidence in the AIRC.
Victoria's two-tier system of employment conditions is set to come to an end, after Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews announced he would accept the referral of the common rule award-making power from the State.
New HREOC president attacks human rights bill for undermining Commission's independence; and termination, change and redundancy statement spells out duty of Queensland employers to genuinely consult, say unions.
In a major decision that will end uncertainty over the vexed "matters pertaining" issue, a full bench of the AIRC has departed from Atlas Steels and held that provisions in deals do not need to be considered and approved in isolation.
The Productivity Commission has floated the idea of imposing a "positive duty" on employers to identify and remedy barriers to employing people with disabilities, after finding the Disability Discrimination Act had failed to reduce discrimination in employment.
A court ruling last week confirms that the NSW IRC and Supreme Court have different views on whether a breach of contract case can be brought under the s106 unfair contract provisions of the State's IR Act.
