The SDA has gladly dropped multiple bids for supported bargaining at McDonald's stores and franchise outlets after the FWC granted the fast food giant a nationwide single interest authorisation, clearing the way for voluntary multi-employer bargaining.
A worker has resigned from Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital following a FWC finding that her employer can continue with a disciplinary process, after police charged her over a protest at an Israeli restaurant and a doxxing organisation revealed her identity.
The FWC has refused to stay same-job, same-pay orders pending an appeal in June, because it would deny new workers increased pay, after poultry processing company Bartter switched labour-hire providers shortly after the tribunal made orders.
The FWC has dismissed claims that an employer undermined good faith bargaining obligations by suspending and then proposing to sack a union delegate who grabbed the shirt of a child patron at a sports centre.
The FWC has found a private health care provider should re-start consultations about removing a "legacy" condition of paid meal breaks for its longest-serving nurses, after it told them the apparently undocumented benefit is no longer "an option".
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.
A NSW IRC full bench will on Thursday decide public sector nurses' special case bid for a 35% pay rise, while the state union's employees will get a 5% increase and a one-off "cost of living allowance" under a proposed agreement variation.
A full Federal Court has confirmed that class actions cannot start until members are correctly identified but can "transmogrify", after Adero Law conceded the definition contained in a store managers' claim against The Reject Shop left the group "empty".
A senior FWC member has unflatteringly compared a past NSW government's successful application to avert rail strikes with the sparse evidence provided by the Crisafulli Government in last week's failed bid to suspend similar industrial action in Queensland.
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.
