The NSW IRC's significant increases ordered today will result in midwives and registered and enrolled nurses at the top of the pay scale becoming the best paid in Australia.
The NSW IRC has today accepted the NSWNMA's position that their public sector members' work is undervalued, awarding heavily frontloaded increases of up to 28% over three years.
The first lawful industrial action in more than 30 years in the Pilbara will begin next week, with ETU members on a crucial BHP power network launching work bans.
The High Court has today refused BHP's bid to overturn a full Federal Court ruling that upheld same-job, same-pay orders against its OS in-house labour hire subsidiaries.
A senior RBA employee appealing a failed backpay claim has also now had his bid for suppression of significant details of the FWC's decision rejected by a presidential member who observed that such applications should not be used to "qualify or recast" the tribunal's reasoning.
ACTU-backed protected action ballot agent Fair Vote has threatened to take resources employer peak body AREEA to court if it does not withdraw "baseless" accusations about data "security" and harvesting extra personal details of workers.
The scope of "same-job, same-pay" orders should replicate the host deal's, according to an employment and IR barrister who is urging the Albanese Government to plug a "leaking bucket", following a full court finding that the FWC should have confined its orders to a more limited cohort of on-hire workers at a Hunter Valley coal mine.
The prospect of the first lawful strikes in more than 25 years at BHP's Iron Ore mines has moved closer, after ETU members on a crucial Pilbara power network voted up a protected action ballot.
The meat workers union has secured a same-job, same-pay order for on-hire chicken deboning workers at a poultry processing facility, but has failed to win a similar arrangement for outsourced cleaners at the same workplace.
A court has fined Woolworths $233,250 for denying three part-time employees standard rosters, guaranteed hours and overtime pay, citing a lack of evidence "at the corporate mind level" and awarding the full sum to the AMIEU to encourage its enforcement work.
