Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth is seeking feedback within 24 hours on her proposed determination for the TWU/ARTIO contractual chain application to fast-track fuel price relief for truck drivers and transport operators.
A senior FWC member has unflatteringly compared a past NSW government's successful application to avert rail strikes with the sparse evidence provided by the Crisafulli Government in last week's failed bid to suspend similar industrial action in Queensland.
The FWC will tomorrow convene an initial hearing for the urgent bid for road transport contractual chain orders to relieve fuel price pressures for truck drivers and operators.
A driver sacked in part for placing p-rnography in a staff area and complaining about the number of work-related WhatsApp groups has won more than $6000 compensation, after the FWC criticised the employer's "relaxed" attitude to the dismissal process.
The former executive manager of an "effectively insolvent" disability services provider sacked while on workers compensation has been awarded $20,000, after the FWC found an administrator reached an "uninformed view" her job could be performed by subordinates.
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The TWU has lodged an "industry emergency application" in the FWC to fast-track relief for truck and passenger transport drivers dealing with Middle East war-related fuel price spikes, following the passage of laws allowing the tribunal to waive the wait time on contractual chain orders.
As the Middle East conflict lifts demand and prices for Australian's hydrocarbons, unions are planning to seek authorisation for protected action against Japanese oil and gas producer Inpex's Australian offshore and onshore facilities after the Easter long weekend, as they stare down an employer offer expected to go to ballot mid-month.
The Australia Institute is urging the FWC to increase award and minimum wages by 7.5% to 11.1%, to "undo the damage" to real wages inflicted since the COVID-19 pandemic, and to compensate for the forthcoming cost of living increases caused by the Middle East conflict.
The Albanese Government says Border Force has recovered more than $300,000 in underpayments and illegal deductions for migrant workers in a major crackdown, but unions involved in a federal pilot program pursuing more than $1.3 million in NSW alone fear it might be axed in the May Federal Budget.
