Employers are urging the Coalition to wind back unfair dismissal rights and expand small business exemptions from workplace laws in a pre-election push that intensifies the IR political fight.
Blue-collar unions will examine bankrolling Greens and crossbench candidates in an election protest against Labor over legislation that forced the CFMEU’s construction division into administration.
Labor wants to know why CFMEU administrator Mark Irving has kept employing a union organiser facing serious charges.
CFMEU administrator Mark Irving has decided to keep employing Joel Shackleton, despite him being charged by police with threatening to kill an owner of an Indigenous labour hire company.
Building unions have signed up more than 600 companies to a CFMEU 21 per cent pay deal in Victoria.
Employers say the CFMEU administrator’s ‘business as usual’ approach to bargaining will not address the union’s ‘disgraceful’ illegal tactics.
The union spent $559,000 of members’ funds on lawyers for Darren Greenfield and his son, Michael, to fight bribery charges.
The mining giant is seeking to invoke an exemption for service contractors under Labor’s legislation.
Employers call on the government to rule out legislating to scrap junior rates if Labor is re-elected.
Unions will urge a second-term Labor government to legislate an end to junior pay rates for adults if they fail to convince the Fair Work Commission to abolish them.
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