The FWC has pointed to a Victoria Police branch's brush with the "red line threshold" for public sector service delivery as reinforcing the business case for rejecting a prosecutor's request to work from home on Mondays.
The FWC has rejected a host employer's argument that de-boning chickens is specialist work that would fall under the service provision exception, and has made same-job, same-pay orders covering two labour-hire companies that provide workers to a poultry processing plant.
The MEAA has rejected an ABC deal that would have provided a 3% interim pay rise while prohibiting employees from taking industrial action for six-months while they push for 5.5% pay rises each year and a guarantee that AI will not replace human workers.
A last-minute shift to direct employment for on-hire workers of one labour supplier at a major abattoir chain has failed to stymie the meat union's bid for same-job, same-pay orders.
The FWC has this week reserved its decision on the first dispute over a same-job, same-pay order, after the MEU challenged Workpac's plan to pay on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine only two months of a 12-months bonus.
The SDA has lodged a new supported bargaining application seeking to cover 115,000 McDonald's workers across the country, off the back of its recent win in South Australia.
On-hire workers employed by BHP's in-house labour provider and its external suppliers have today won same-job, same-pay orders, after a FWC full bench rejected arguments that the service provider exemption and a "fair and reasonable" requirement stood in the way.
The NTEU says Monash University will be liable for millions of dollars in backpay after the Federal Court today found it is required to pay casual tutors for scheduled consultations with students that don't count as part of work "associated" with tutoring.
The ETU says same-job, same-pay orders it is seeking at Chevron's Barrow Island LNG facility in WA could lift wages of labour hire workers by a mammoth $80,000 a year.
