Qantas long-haul pilots have rejected a proposed deal that would have lifted their pay by about 25% over four years, after their unions split on whether to support the offer.
Before the first Right to Disconnect dispute hearing, scheduled for this morning, Pacific National resolved the matter in a private conference, leaving the Fair Work Act's RtD provisions untested after 20 months in operation.
A FWC expert panel has this afternoon made an emergency contractual chain order that will require companies at the top of the supply chain to review petrol prices fortnightly and pay enough to cover owner-driver and transport businesses' increased fuel costs.
The FWC has dismissed claims that an employer undermined good faith bargaining obligations by suspending and then proposing to sack a union delegate who grabbed the shirt of a child patron at a sports centre.
The NSW IRC has today fined the doctors' union $30,000 - 60% of the maximum - for flagrantly defying anti-strike orders when they walked off the job for three days last year.
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The FWC has found a private health care provider should re-start consultations about removing a "legacy" condition of paid meal breaks for its longest-serving nurses, after it told them the apparently undocumented benefit is no longer "an option".
A senior FWC member has used an experienced Jetstar aircraft maintenance engineer's unsuccessful challenge to his sacking to emphasise that "hazing" is no longer considered "funny", after he left two apprentices stranded six metres in the air under a Boeing 787 wing while he went to lunch.
The NSW IRC's significant increases ordered today will result in midwives and registered and enrolled nurses at the top of the pay scale becoming the best paid in Australia.
