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Power play ends with 17.5% spike for Transgrid workers

Transgrid workers have won pay rises totalling 17.5% over three years after the FWC on Friday provided closure on a hard-fought campaign by making an intractable bargaining determination splitting the difference between employer and union proposals.

Intentions exclude "coastal" depot workers from allowance

The FWC has refused to resolve a dispute about whether a remote locality allowance should be calculated on travel by road or "as the crow flies", but has determined, based on the parties' intentions, that a new Gladstone depot would not be covered by the allowance because it is "coastal" rather than remote.

Accord at Patrick, 27 years after docks war

Wharfies have near-unanimously voted up a "historic" Patrick Stevedores deal that provides pay rises of at least 10% over three years, a $2000 bonus and a super boost, eight months before the nominal expiry of the current agreement, and coinciding with the anniversary of the 1998 waterfront dispute.

Revivified NSW tribunal asserts its power

The NSW IRC has affirmed its ability to dictate the terms of a corrective Facebook post it forced the HSU to publish and has dismissed a claim that in heading off paramedics' industrial action, a senior tribunal member approached it on the basis that State IR laws don't "tolerate" it during conciliation.

Consent IBD granted as "sophisticated" parties spin wheels

The FWC has granted stevedore Qube an AWU-supported IBD to resolve, with no post-declaration negotiating period, an impasse over the pay rates, wage increases, sign-on bonus and income protection the union wants to secure in a new deal.

Fine increased for education department's job security breach

The ACT's education department must find an additional $8000 after a court increased penalties for breaching an agreement's job security terms in the case of a former public school teacher claiming she was unlawfully dismissed in 2016.

BHP to haggle over ETU's "reasonable" pay demands

The ETU is seeking 4.5% annual pay rises for BHP's high voltage and power workers in the Pilbara, having put a majority support application on hold after the miner agreed to bargain.

Labor's pro-worker IR changes bearing fruit: Paper

The first public policy changes to boost workers' power in more than 30 years - under the Albanese Government - have coincided with an increase in nominal and real wages and a rise in workers' share of the fruits of the economy, according to the Centre for Future Work's David Peetz.

AiG pushing Coalition for root and branch review of Act

The Australian Industry Group is urging the Coalition to conduct a "fundamental review" of the Fair Work Act in its first term if it wins the federal election, to identify changes to take to the 2028 election, while the ACTU has released legal advice obtained on the party's public sector WFH policy prior to its sudden backflip.

No sin bin for underpaying Catholic schools: Court

Catholic school employers have escaped penalties for withholding backpay from two teachers who resigned before new agreements' retrospective pay rises came into effect, a judge finding that the deals' ambiguities contributed to the "honest and reasonable" mistake.

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