A senior FWC member has backed a university's approach to consultations ahead of planned job cuts, while observing its unsustainable financial position makes redundancies "inevitable".
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.
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 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.
The FWC has rejected CEPU claims that Queensland Rail will use data from its new GPS-linked vehicle management system to performance-manage employees who brake harshly and accelerate or corner too rapidly.
After a FWC full bench finding that bullying must be assessed within a "spectrum of seriousness", a member has affirmed in redetermining a paramedic's challenge to a 350km transfer that his treatment of a subordinate constituted serious misconduct.
The Federal Court has found that disputes about same-job, same-pay protected rates should come before the FWC in the first instance, while it has agreed to stay court proceedings until the Commission determines a SJSP dispute involving Workpac on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine.
The FWC has ruled that Woodside's agreement does not prevent it sending offshore platform employees to work in Perth when a cyclone hits, but doubts remain about whether such a direction is lawful and reasonable.
On-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine who late last year won same-job, same-pay orders did not qualify for any portion of an annual bonus paid to the host's employees, the FWC has held, while separately finding the mine must pay the full incentive to its part-time direct employees, and those on unpaid leave or workers compensation.
The Federal Court has temporarily restrained a trustee from winding up a purported income protection fund that a FWC full bench found had paid the UFU a $1.6 million "secret commission".
