A FWC full bench is giving an employer time to reconsider its refusal to provide an undertaking, while the tribunal contemplates using its new powers to unilaterally alter agreements, after finding on appeal that a recently-approved deal failed the BOOT.
A FWC full bench has approved two major infrastructure deals after receiving undertakings addressing its concerns about delegates' rights clauses in the wake of last month's full Federal Court judgment upending restrictive provisions the tribunal itself inserted in nine awards.
A four-member FWC full bench has made a new same-job, same-pay order covering only the Skilled Workforce labour-hire employee classifications that currently work at a Hunter Valley coal mine, following a full Federal Court finding that the tribunal's original orders had been too broad.
The FWC has refused to stay a single interest bargaining authorisation for six Chemist Warehouse franchisees while an appeal is underway, because it could "derail" negotiations for several months, when the permit only stands for a year.
The FWC has ordered a pharmaceutical company back to negotiations with the UWU for a first enterprise agreement to cover operational employees in non-managerial roles at its Brisbane manufacturing facility, after finding it breached good faith bargaining by offering employees inducements to vote against enterprise talks.
A full Federal Court has today upheld a landmark FWC full bench decision granting same-job, same-pay orders once heralded as a "nail in the coffin" for BHP's in-house labour hire model.
The FWC has voiced concerns over an employer's questioning of meatworkers who signed a petition in support of bargaining and its claims that the AMIEU "coerced" them to do so when they did not understand what it meant.
The MEU says a full Federal Court's quashing today of FWC decisions inserting a delegates' rights term into modern awards emphatically confirms that the Closing Loopholes laws allow workplace delegates to represent workers on site regardless of labour hire or employment arrangements.
Northern Territory public servants have accepted the Finocchiaro Government's marginally above-cap wage offer, which it says is a "positive outcome", but the tight result should be a "wake-up call for the government" according to the CPSU.
Unions' pursuit of a 24%-over-three-years pay rise for Endeavour Energy workers has fallen short after a FWC full bench instead made an intractable bargaining determination delivering 17.8% over four years, rejecting numerous claims the employer did not bargain in good faith.
