Interested parties have until 4pm next Monday to comment on draft employer and employee surveys commissioned as a key component of the FWC's bid to develop an award clause removing impediments to working from home.
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Qantas short haul pilots have voted up a deal expected to boost incomes by more than 25% over five years by fundamentally changing how they are remunerated, while the Albanese Government has approved Qatar Airlines taking a 25% stake in Virgin.
A FWC full bench says it suspended industrial action afflicting Sydney's rail network partly to give the RTBU's leadership a chance to "re-establish a greater degree of control" amid suggestions some workers have been going rogue in pushing for a more radical approach.
A company that sprang a meeting on workers at which it compelled them to collectively and immediately select bargaining representatives has failed to win approval of a new deal, with the FWC finding the employer "misled" them.
A full Federal Court has taken legislative changes into account in throwing out the UFU's bid to quash a FWC full bench finding no terms had been agreed between the union and Fire Rescue Victoria upon which to base an intractable bargaining workplace determination.
A FWC full bench has decided to park its consideration of whether to bring forward the trigger for consultations in model agreement clauses after employers expressed "alarm" at the prospect of requiring it when proposing to introduce a major change rather than when they make a "definite decision".
After the UFU refused to comply with a FWC order to hand over a trust deed for an income protection scheme, the Federal Court has also ordered the union to produce the document.
Major employer and industry organisations have lodged a last-minute protest with the FWC's president about potential changes to model consultation clauses in agreements, claiming they too closely resemble an ACTU proposal that would substantially curtail management prerogative.
