One Nation has flagged its support for the Senate inquiry into the controversial legislation aimed at restricting volunteer-related clauses in the enterprise agreement covering professional firefighters employed by Victoria's Country Fire Authority.
The FWC has agreed to suppress the identity of an employee representative who signed off on an enterprise agreement on the condition he would remain anonymous, because he feared victimisation in the workplace after the ETU resolved to oppose it.
A Coles Supermarkets night-fill worker who is seeking to terminate the retailer's 2011 enterprise agreement has failed to stymie bids by the retailer and the SDA to be represented by lawyers.
The FWC has granted the ASU's scope order application for three agreements after a "long and contested" disagreement over the issue between a Brisbane water company and unions.
The MUA is challenging three recent FWC approvals of agreements that had been negotiated directly between large offshore services companies and small numbers of employees, including one in which a Commission member expressed "serious concerns about the authenticity of the bargaining process".
The SDA says it will push harder to ensure that agreements contain sufficient safeguards to pass the better off overall test, in the wake of an FWC full bench's embarrassing rejection of the enterprise deal it negotiated for Coles supermarkets.
BHP Coal satisfied consultation obligations in its enterprise agreement after announcing it would shed hundreds of jobs across four central Queensland coal mines in 2014, even though it had already reached a decision to offer voluntary redundancies, the Federal Court has found.
The takeover of the Patrick's stevedoring business by a company chaired by waterfront warrior Chris Corrigan has helped to break a long–running bargaining deadlock with the MUA.
