A FWC full bench has canvassed the meanings of "sufficient interest" and "sufficiently representative" in upholding a challenge to the approval of a labour hire company's agreement, voted on entirely by casuals despite extending to permanents.
A public servant who claimed he should have received six weeks carer's leave to escort his frail father back to India for a specialist's appointment and physiotherapy has failed to convince a senior FWC member, who found no evidence to suggest he could not have been treated locally.
Interested parties have six weeks to provide feedback on the performance of eight protected action ballot agents approved under Secure Jobs legislation.
An emergency care flight service has withdrawn objections to an ANMF protected action ballot of nurses and midwives, and the FWC has found no reason to block it, after the union inserted a caveat to protect patient safety.
The UTS Centre for Indigenous People and Work has joined forces with the AEU to develop a best practice bargaining framework, with the aim of incorporating anti-racist and cultural recognition clauses in agreements.
The former national HR manager of the country's biggest tug operator made a "snap decision based on... irritation" when she chose to unlawfully dismiss a senior port manager because he rejected a new role central to restructuring plans, a court has found.
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".
Launceston Council's chief executive says he cannot thank the ASU enough for its role in negotiating an Australian-first in-principle deal enshrining a four-day work week with "five-day wages", further declaring that he would like the model enshrined in law "right across this country".
The CEPU's South Australian branch has failed to convince Commissioner Chris Platt in his final ruling before retirement that an employer breached its good faith bargaining obligations by putting a single-enterprise agreement to a vote after the union sought a supported bargaining authorisation.
BHP's coal mining and in-house labour hire entities are seeking special leave to challenge the Full Federal Court ruling that upheld same-job, same-pay orders the FWC made for the resources titan's Bowen Basin mines.
