The aviation industry is now firmly on the frontlines of the battle to equalise pay for directly-employed and labour hire workers working side-by-side, after cabin crew unions made further applications for same-job, same-pay orders against labour suppliers to the Qantas group.
The FWC has reinforced its power to delve into the agreement-making process, regardless of employers' declarations and whether a proposed deal is supported by all those involved.
The FWC has rejected a Subway franchisee's proposed deal after the employer failed to properly explain that it freezes Saturday, Sunday and public holiday rates.
The FWC will apply greater scrutiny to agreements made with the CFMEU's construction and general division, in the wake of allegations about the union's conduct.
The SDA says it will be "going in to bat" for any permanent Woolworths employees wanting to switch to a four-day working week under a clause in the supermarket giant's new agreement, approved by a FWC full bench despite multiple RAFFWU and AMIEU objections that followed the latter's "misuse" of the company's in-house messaging platform.
The CFMEU will seek to overturn a recent legal representation ruling, maintaining the FWC got it wrong when it allowed a construction company to have both a barrister and a paid agent appear on its behalf.
The FWC has approved an Aldi deal with undertakings that expunge labour hire clauses designed, according to the SDA, to circumvent "same-job, same-pay" laws.
The FWC is seeking feedback on proposed undertakings that expunge an Aldi agreement's labour hire clauses, deemed invalid by the SDA because they try to circumvent same-job, same-pay provisions recently introduced into the Fair Work Act.
Shadow workplace relations minister Michaelia Cash has welcomed "several good ideas" on IR policy from the party's NSW branch, which give possible pointers to the forthcoming Federal manifesto.
BHP has failed in another bid to win approval of a deal for its in-house labour hire arm, after it gave workers an "upbeat" deep-dive on the benefits, failed to explain detriments and left them in the dark on pay.
