The FWC has found that an employer failed to implement recommendations from two bullying investigations conducted by the Ai Group and should now consider leadership training for the former manager of a worker who quit after the filing of the dispute case.
The ETU, CFMEU and AMWU WA branches claim they have secured the first Pilbara agreement endorsed by all of the State's construction unions that provides a 2:1 rostering arrangement and 12-hour shifts.
The UFU has failed to convince the FWC that Fire Rescue Victoria used a procedurally unfair process when it suspended two workers, after Victoria's anti-corruption body found they accessed private work emails at Victorian branch secretary Peter Marshall's request.
The FWC has refused to approve a new deal for hamburger chain Grill'd despite 94% of employees voting it up, after finding some of its young workforce might not have understood they would be only 77 cents a week better off than under the award.
The Ai Group has accused Labor of disregarding its re-empowered IR umpire by taking out of its hands decisions to remove or reduce award penalty rates.
The SDA says Federal Labor's multi-employer agreement stream has opened the way for Chemist Warehouse's highly-feminised, award-dependent workforce to bargain collectively when they previously had "no realistic path".
Seven years after BHP started up its in-house labour hire provider Operations Services, it has finally won the support of its workforce for hotly-contested unilateral agreements to cover them, after a ballot that closed yesterday.
The FWC has refused to resolve a dispute about whether a remote locality allowance should be calculated on travel by road or "as the crow flies", but has determined, based on the parties' intentions, that a new Gladstone depot would not be covered by the allowance because it is "coastal" rather than remote.
Wharfies have near-unanimously voted up a "historic" Patrick Stevedores deal that provides pay rises of at least 10% over three years, a $2000 bonus and a super boost, eight months before the nominal expiry of the current agreement, and coinciding with the anniversary of the 1998 waterfront dispute.
The NSW IRC has affirmed its ability to dictate the terms of a corrective Facebook post it forced the HSU to publish and has dismissed a claim that in heading off paramedics' industrial action, a senior tribunal member approached it on the basis that State IR laws don't "tolerate" it during conciliation.
