The SDA has cried foul about the FWC's recent decision requiring award-covered retail, fast food and pharmacy workers aged 18 to 20 to work six months with an employer before earning full adult pay - claiming the bench sprung the idea on it without warning - and proposing a further variation to address the "absurd" consequences.

The FWC is hearing an ETU same-job, same-pay bid to close an alleged 25% pay gap for Monadelphous employees working on Inpex's offshore Ichthys LNG facility in the Browse Basin.

NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says more resources are on the way to help the State IRC manage its burgeoning jurisdiction, as Vice President David Chin predicts it will need more than 11 extra decision makers once it gains momentum as the gateway for workers' psychological injury compensation claims.

FWC general manager Murray Furlong has launched a new action against former HSU leader Diana Asmar, pushing for her to be banned from holding union positions because she allegedly took reprisal action against "several individuals" who made protected disclosures about the union's governance and financial management.

The under-administration Victorian HSU branch will have to disaffiliate from the Labor Party, resulting in a reduced entitlement to send delegates to the party's State conference, after the administrator failed to convince a FWC full bench that it should overturn wide-ranging rule changes.

The limited NES definition of shiftworkers deprives many employees of annual and personal/carer's leave, the ANMF and AMWU has told a Senate inquiry.

The FWC is seeking feedback on its provisional view that it should order Secure Parking to reinstate a full-time compliance manager to a part-time position, finding Japanese-owned company unfairly dismissed him during a cost-cutting redundancy round.

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The FWC has acceded to BHP's request for it to bring almost 140 of its BHP OS on-hire workers in-house, to reduce the workload involved with managing multiple enterprise agreements and address "the potential for disharmony in the workforce".

The SDA has gladly dropped multiple bids for supported bargaining at McDonald's stores and franchise outlets after the FWC granted the fast food giant a nationwide single interest authorisation, clearing the way for voluntary multi-employer bargaining.