Bargaining has come to a halt at the Health Insurance Commission after five months of negotiations, with the CPSU saying the employer now won't talk on key issues until after the Federal Budget is announced next week.
The MBA's head has urged the Democrats not to heavily amend the forthcoming Cole legislation, while one of Cole's counsel assisting has outlined the "absolute minimum" legislative change needed from Cole and suggested Friday's quashing of charges against the CFMEU's Kingham was probably wrong in law.
Big WA construction player Len Buckeridge says a WA Government policy shift that could cost him tens of millions of dollars is payback for him "singing like a canary" to the Cole Royal Commission, but the Gallop Government says his claims are completely misconceived.
The OEA has made it easier for employers to draft and lodge AWAs electronically, at a time when overall lodgments are up by 90% on the same period last year.
The CFMEU (building and construction division) is hailing Victorian secretary Martin Kingham's legal victory today as the exposure by a "real" court of the "sham nature" of the building Royal Commission.
The Melbourne Magistrates' Court has this morning dismissed a charge against the Victorian secretary of the CFMEU (construction division), Martin Kingham, over his refusal to hand over information to the Cole Royal Commission.