Stevedore Qube has failed to persuade the FWC that the MUA is deliberately complicating negotiations for a new Melbourne port deal in the belief that it will get a better result if the matter is arbitrated by the Commission under new Closing Loopholes laws.
Four weeks ahead of employees winning a legislated right to disconnect, public service employers have been told they will need to train HR professionals and managers about the interaction of the new entitlement with general protections laws and consider updating job descriptions to ensure they "accurately reflect" expectations about after-hours contact.
The Federal Government will intervene to back the MEU's bid in the FWC for same-job, same-pay orders to require BHP's in-house labour hire arm to pay the same rates as its direct workers at the company's Bowen Basin coal mines, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced today.
MEU members at Batchfire's Callide thermal coal mine in Queensland have overwhelmingly endorsed a protected action ballot, hot on the heels of the FWC's first same-job, same-pay ruling for the site's labour hire workers, who will benefit from any bargaining gains at the site.
A Macquarie University academic says Medibank employees trialling a four-day "100:80:100" working week are performing better and feeling more motivated, while productivity is unchanged, with some indicating they would choose an employer based on whether the option is available.
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.
In a significant decision on paid parental leave, a FWC presidential member has ordered a State-owned public transport provider to backpay a bus driver who claimed to be the primary carer of his newborn son while his wife recovered from an emergency caesarean section.
In a judgment that casts a harsh light on agreement drafting, a Federal Court majority has described crucial elements of a multinational paint company's since superseded deals as a "jumble of random terms", before quashing a finding that six misclassified warehouse workers had been underpaid.
The FAAA has extended the tentacles of its SJSP test case against Qantas labour suppliers, bringing an application against a third labour hire company, while the parallel test case against BHP Coal has been pushed back after unions sought extra time for their submissions.
The Federal Court has again intervened to turn down the heat in a continuing bargaining stoush between the CFMEU and the head contractor for Queensland's $7 billion Cross River Rail project, giving the union until Thursday to challenge orders imposing 15-metre no-go zones around sites and prohibiting the filming of workers crossing picket lines.