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.
Victoria Police rejected a crime scene officer's request for a flexible work arrangement on reasonable business grounds, the FWC has held, while urging the parties to embrace a "better than nothing" compromise.
More than 300 employees of labour provider Workpac placed at Batchfire's Callide thermal coal mine near Biloela are set to receive increases in November of up to $20,000 a year, according to the MEU, after a FWC full bench made its first same-job, same-pay ruling today.
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.
Pay rises in private sector agreements eased in the March quarter and plummeted from an unusual spike in the public sector, according to DEWR's latest data.
Victoria's public sector nurses are set to decide whether to endorse a pay rise of 28% over four years after rejecting an earlier offer and closing hospital beds, while NSW nurses have handed the Minns Government a "business case" for a quick 15% uplift.
Unions NSW says that proposed base pay increases in this week's State budget amount to an "offer that workers and their unions can build on in bargaining" after the scrapping of public sector pay caps.
The TWU has begun multi-employer bargaining with aviation ground-handling operators, as unions continue to make use of the Albanese Government's new IR laws.
Long-serving RTBU NSW branch leader Alex Claassens is set to become national secretary following the resignation of Mark Diamond, whom the organisation credits with "transforming" it and resisting Coalition attempts to thwart the union movement.
