Unions have failed to convince FWC President Adam Hatcher that last year's legislation "protecting" penalty rates and overtime is "fatal" to employer cases seeking to vary the clerks and banking awards, with the joined matters referred to a full bench.
West Australian unions are calling for the Federal Government to urgently fund infrastructure to support "industry attraction programs" in the south-western town of Collie, as coal mine and power station closures loom, and workers risk losing their jobs before new industries are established.
The FWC has backed Amazon's sacking of an injured worker who refused to have an independent medical examination, while another employer's income protection policy has weighed in favour of finding it not unfair to dismiss an incapacitated diesel fitter.
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The FWC will refer discount retailer Panda Mart to the FWO after hearing it retained the passport of an unfairly sacked worker who won compensation while facing a HR representative's claims that she might have engaged in visa impropriety.
A FWC full bench has taken the extraordinary step of quashing a five-year-old decision that left thousands of BP employees uncovered by an enterprise agreement while the company remained unaware it had been terminated.
In echoes of the last round of contested negotiations, the FSU is urging Reserve Bank employees to reject a unilateral offer that it warns will prompt a "brain drain" to more lucrative public and private sector roles.
A FWC full bench has warned unrepresented applicants that they are "not well served" by relying on generative AI to prepare their cases, after it had to sift through an Uber driver's "voluminous material" to "identify his complaints and address them", and he bombarded the tribunal with emails, despite pleas to refrain.
A Programmed entity has failed to win approval for a deal after the FWC found the company made multiple misrepresentations to workers, including wrongly presenting it as an "in‑principle agreement" when the ETU did not support it.
A Victorian public schools deal sold by the AEU to Victorian members as a " win for teachers" has been voted down, with the union set to decide today on its "next steps" and the Government accusing the union of being out of touch with its membership.
