Some 90% of voting Coles workers have endorsed a new agreement that grandfathers over-award pay arrangements for current employees, improves penalty rates and provides a one-off $475 payment, but RAFFWU is expected to raise BOOT-related issues when it is submitted for approval.
The Federal Circuit Court has levelled a $75,000 fine and is expected to order more than $25,000 in compensation against the director of a liquidated supermarkets enterprise who withheld about $450,000 in union dues, superannuation and Easter rates from more than 200 employees.
The aviation services company Aerocare is pushing ahead with a hotly-contested application in the Federal Court to overturn the Fair Work Commission's rejection of a proposed new enterprise agreement.
FWC President Iain Ross has rebuffed an application by retailer Aldi to have a full Federal Court review the rejection of its agreement because of a deficient bargaining notice.
Almost two years after an agreed deadline to review a fiercely-contested productivity measure was "overlooked", an FWC full bench majority has upheld the tribunal's right to revisit its impact on workers.
In a surprising postscript to last year's boycott of Streets ice creams over job losses and roster changes at the company's western Sydney factory, the AMWU this week found itself back before the FWC supporting 15 workers wanting out after an oversubscribed redundancy round.
The RTBU says a new 4% annual package to be offered directly to rail workers by Sydney and NSW Trains is an "improvement" and a move "in the right direction", but it is yet to decide whether to support it.
The FWO has again taken a bead on union behaviour, confirming today that it is investigating industrial action at the Oaky North mine in Queensland, where about 190 workers remain locked out after more than 200 days.
