Employers with significant casual workforces have been given a guided tour of new legislative filters for assessing whether proposed deals are genuinely agreed, in a FWC decision focussing on the Fair Work Act's "employed at the time" provision.
The FWC has "reluctantly" found that in focusing only on the positives an employer failed to adequately explain a newly consolidated deal opposed by one branch of the HSU but supported by its embattled Victorian No 1 branch.
Burger chain Grill'd has failed to convince the FWC to approve its enterprise deal, after offering undertakings that would have left some workers $3.10 better off a week, up from 77 cents, while the SDA is seeking to terminate 15 of the company's agreements and is asking it to return to the bargaining table.
Surging demand to join the early childhood education supported bargaining agreement and access its substantial pay increases has spurred the FWC to tailor a more efficient process for handling the "large volume" of applications.
A FWC bench has refused a UFU request to further adjourn its intractable bargaining case with the FRV in an effort to keep the matter "on track" and has scheduled a three-week hearing, 18 months after it became the first vehicle to test the Commission's new deadlock-breaking powers under the Secure Jobs legislation.
The FWC has refused to approve a new deal for hamburger chain Grill'd despite 94% of employees voting it up, after finding some of its young workforce might not have understood they would be only 77 cents a week better off than under the award.
The Federal Court has refused to knock out an ETU claim that an employer fraudulently withheld information from the FWC when seeking approval for a new deal, allegedly concealing that the bulk of those voting had been engaged solely to take part in the ballot.
Seven years after BHP started up its in-house labour hire provider Operations Services, it has finally won the support of its workforce for hotly-contested unilateral agreements to cover them, after a ballot that closed yesterday.
The FWC has in approving a CFMEU-lodged labour hire deal made with two NSW construction workers discussed the circumstances in which small cohort agreements might succeed.
BHP is trying to "buy" support from its OS in-house labour hire workforce for a new production agreement by offering a $10,000 sign-on bonus, according to the Mining and Energy Union, after a parallel agreement for its maintenance cohort got across the line after it put forward the same sweetener.
