Bluescope Steel has been ordered to pay over $2 million to fencing manufacturer Gram Engineering after the Federal Court ruled Bluescope infringed Gram’s registered design for a fencing panel sheet.
The Fair Work Commission has refused a bid by an employer group to halt the merger of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and two other unions while a challenge is heard.
Slater and Gordon is seeking costs for defending against unsuccessful challenges brought by two industry groups to the merger of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union with two other unions.
Industry groups filed an appeal yesterday of a Fair Work Commission decision that granted approval to the merger of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union with two other unions.
Bunnings Properties Pty Ltd has defeated a challenge brought by the Ku-ring-gai Council to its plans for development at the site of the former 3M building in a Sydney suburb.
The Fair Work Commission has given the go-ahead to the proposed merger of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union with two other unions, a marriage that will result in a powerhouse union with over 144,000 members.
The CFMEU has a “deplorable record” of breaking industrial legislation, a Federal Court judge said Monday as it slapped the union and a Victorian delegate with a $105,000 fine for enforcing a closed union construction site in Melbourne.
A judge has rejected Amaca’s bid for indemnity costs in a case over contributions to an asbestos class action settlement, but he did not rule on the company’s novel argument that a settlement resulting from mediation could count as the outcome of litigation in awarding costs.
A Slater and Gordon lawyer representing three unions seeking Fair Work Commission approval for a proposed tie-up, has slammed an “urgent” email from counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills claiming a newly discovered contempt matter involving one of the deal’s applicants should bar approval of the deal.
Courts can stop union officials from seeking union cover to avoid paying court-issued fines for breaking the Fair Work Act, the High Court said Wednesday.