The Federal Government is proposing changes to right of entry rules that would require permits to be issued in photo ID format, in a bid to curb abuse by “militant” union officials.
Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash has denied she referred concerns about a $100,000 donation by the Australian Workers’ Union to the union watchdog to damage Labor leader Bill Shorten, telling a court Friday her referral was “in the public interest”.
An appeals court has reinstated charges of unsatisfactory professional conduct against the principal of a leading employment law firm, after the lawyer called opposing counsel at Lander & Rogers “fundamentally dishonest”.
Senator Michaelia Cash’s former media adviser says he notified his counterpart in the office of former federal Justice Minister Michael Keenan ahead of AFP raids on the Australian Workers’ Union offices, and both alerted the media, a court heard Wednesday.
The government has introduced legislation that would make casual conversion – under which casuals can ask to be moved to a full or part-time position after 12 months – a right of all workers, but the ACTU has come out swinging against the proposal, calling it “a backdoor to casualisation”.
Michaelia Cash’s former chief-of-staff, Ben Davies, was the tipster who told the minister’s ex-media adviser that federal police were planning to raid the headquarters of the Australian Workers’ Union, a court was told Tuesday.
A construction company has lost its appeal of a ruling that it illegally blocked CFMMEU officials from entering a work site to meet with union members, with a judge saying the union did not need to prove intent to obstruct to make its case for violations of the Fair Work Act.
Spotless Services is challenging a ruling that it owes redundancy to three workers employed at the Perth International Airport that were on fixed contracts.
A former staffer to federal minister Michaelia Cash admitted in court Monday to alerting the media about federal police raids on the offices of the Australian Workers’ Union, but he refused to reveal who tipped him off.
A former Norton Rose Fulbright partner says he may file a contempt of court motion against the firm for allegedly failing to produce certain evidentiary documents for over two years.