The FAAA says it will no longer allow the "effluxion of time to be used as a weapon against workers", after protracted efforts to confirm a regional airline's cabin crew remained in favour of a majority support determination backfired in the FWC.
Unions have doubled down on objections to an Australian Industry Group draft working-from-home clause proposed for the clerks award, claiming it will create a two-tiered system, confound both employers and workers and violates new penalty rates protections.
The Federal Court has found that disputes about same-job, same-pay protected rates should come before the FWC in the first instance, while it has agreed to stay court proceedings until the Commission determines a SJSP dispute involving Workpac on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine.
The NSW IRC is today livestreaming the first day of a lengthy hearing to determine a work value claim on behalf of public hospital doctors seeking to bridge an alleged 30% pay gap, in what their union says is the biggest case in the tribunal's history.
A four-member FWC full bench has formally put on hold a review of the right to disconnect provisions, due to a paucity of case law, but recent commentary by tribunal president Adam Hatcher and leading academic lawyer Andrew Stewart indicate the jury is still out on the reasons for the litigation deficit and the impacts of the reforms.
The FWC has ruled that Woodside's agreement does not prevent it sending offshore platform employees to work in Perth when a cyclone hits, but doubts remain about whether such a direction is lawful and reasonable.
On-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine who late last year won same-job, same-pay orders did not qualify for any portion of an annual bonus paid to the host's employees, the FWC has held, while separately finding the mine must pay the full incentive to its part-time direct employees, and those on unpaid leave or workers compensation.
The Federal Court has temporarily restrained a trustee from winding up a purported income protection fund that a FWC full bench found had paid the UFU a $1.6 million "secret commission".
The NSW Industrial Court has fined the state's nurses and midwives union $130,000 for its "flagrant and unapologetic" flouting of multiple anti-strike orders during pay negotiations with the Minns Government that have since morphed into a major gender undervaluation case.
Eighteen months after retail giant Aldi sought to insert a clause in a proposed agreement to render it immune to same-job, same-pay applications, it is facing a SJSP claim that the SDA says could lift on-hire warehouse workers' base pay by almost a third.
