As it faces a bill of more than $170 million to restore underpayments to 66,000 current and former workers, NAB will make what the FWO says is the largest ever contrition payment of $2 million to Canberra's coffers as part of an enforceable undertaking that includes a novel obligation to re-write complex enterprise agreement clauses that contributed to the breaches.
The FWC has rejected a SDA bid to force Woolworths to preserve generous site-closure redundancy payments negotiated before the supermarket giant scrapped plans to shut a major distribution centre.
The Albanese Government should revisit the Fair Work Act's prohibition on multi-employer bargaining in the construction industry, because it is a major hurdle to tackling corruption and misconduct in the sector, the CFMEU's administrator said today, advocating for industry-wide rather than solely union-focused reform.
The Federal Court has held that Serco must provide redundancy entitlements to almost 150 immigration detention workers who lost their jobs after the Department of Home Affairs chose not to renew its contract, despite many accepting positions with the new service providers.
The FWC has rejected the United Firefighters Union's claim that its history of disputes with a government employer's IR advisor meant he could not impartially investigate serious misconduct allegations against a member.
An employer has withdrawn from a multi-employer supported bargaining authorisation covering a group of Victorian disability service providers after making significant changes to its business model.
The FWC has found an agreement does not entitle workers to redundancy pay if they are unable to obtain or refuse to obtain a newly-required high level security clearance.
The NTEU says a neurodiversity clause in a medical research institute's proposed agreement represents a "cultural shift" in how workplaces provide support, committing to a proactive, low-burden approach that will not necessarily require employees to obtain an official diagnosis.
The FWC has recommended a university put a proposed academic workload model to a ballot despite finding it had not been developed in line with its enterprise agreement, while also declining to require the employer to apply it from 2024 as intended.
In a rare case of an employer challenging a union's "no" vote campaign materials, the FWC has ruled that the UWU had been entitled to present a two-tier wage system as a threat to existing workers, but misrepresented agreed leave entitlements.
