Washery employees at two of Peabody Energy's Bowen Basin coal mines will experience a "small but significant reduction in their overall remuneration" after an FWC full bench upheld the mining giant's application to terminate its agreement.
Jetstar ground handling employees will earn bonuses of up to $600 a year for reducing baggage "misdirects" under a side deal to a proposed new enterprise agreement that delivers new allowances for towing and training.
The Victorian Government is looking to appoint a new board for the Country Fire Authority by the end of this week, after deciding to sack the incumbents on Friday for opposing a new enterprise agreement.
A failed CFMEU bid for good faith bargaining orders against AGL Loy Yang has highlighted the robust "hard positional bargaining" at the company's power station and brown coal mine that has been complicated by a four-union single bargaining unit belatedly sharing the process with six newly-elected employee representatives.
Fair Work Commission President Iain Ross has been dragged into Victoria's firefighters' dispute, after state parliament heard he gave assurances about the proposed agreement for the Country Fire Authority.
Coles has told the Fair Work Commission it will not make the changes required for its 2014-17 supermarkets enterprise agreement to pass the better off overall test.
Thousands of Victoria's public sector mental health nurses have this morning escalated protected industrial action to "expedite" negotiations for a new agreement, while in the private sector the ANMF is "strongly recommending" Healthscope nurses and midwives vote up a proposed deal.
The AiG is challenging the FWC's rejection of an enterprise agreement because it didn't comply with strict 14-day bargaining notice requirements, arguing that the ruling imposes unworkable and costly restrictions.
The FWC has agreed with three WA universities that an NTEU notice misled members and undermined collective bargaining, but it has decided against issuing good faith bargaining orders because the union "set the record straight" despite refusing to retract its statement or admit error.
The Andrews Labor Government has brought in Victoria's Emergency Management Commissioner to help broker a peace deal in the standoff between paid and volunteer firefighters, which has spilled over into the federal election campaign.
