Psychiatrist staff specialists in NSW public hospitals have won a temporary 10% "stop-gap" attraction and retention allowance, after a State IRC full bench accepted they had established a special case to address an "acute shortage", partly a result of "comparatively low pay", that is driving a reduction in the quality of mental health care.
A FWC full bench has expressed a provisional view that it should make an intractable bargaining determination reflecting the employer's proposal, other than for a previously agreed term the UWU "resiled" from.
The FWC has today ruled a paramedic ineligible for primary carers' parental leave to tend to for his six-month old baby, because the enterprise agreement covering him only enables carers of newborns to access the entitlement.
Senior ABC managers failed to consult in-house IR and legal experts and "blithely ignored" risks when the organisation "capitulated" to critics and sacked presenter Antoinette Lattouf over her political views on the Gaza war, which warranted a substantial penalty to deter a recurrence, Federal Court judge Darryl Rangiah found today.
A MEU prompt has spurred a host employer subject to same-job, same-pay orders to fulfil its statutory obligation to tell the FWC about a recently-engaged labour-supplier.
A pilots' union will weigh into a tussle over the Flying Kangaroo's alleged ditching of an A380 captain's exclusive parking arrangements near Sydney Airport, after the FWC rejected the airline's contention it cannot intervene as a "third party" in a member's agreement dispute.
Labour hire company Skilled has appealed against a Federal Court ruling upholding FWC deputy president and former Labor MP Terri Butler's refusal to stand aside from hearing a same-job, same-pay case due to apprehended bias, despite her calling such on-hire arrangements a "rort" in parliamentary debate.
The FSU is threatening to lodge a dispute with the FWC to challenge the ANZ's surprise announcement that it intends to axe of thousands of workers, giving the bank by the close of business to clarify its response to questions over alleged consultation failures.
In a decision affirming the UWU's right to be covered by an agreement even though it had no "capacity" to bargain, a FWC full bench has varied the approval of a Centacare deal to remove a deputy president's refusal to note its coverage and an incorrect assumption that it lacked members.
The Federal Court will rule on Wednesday on BHP Coal's bid to stay the crucial FWC full bench rulings to issue same-job, same-pay orders for its Bowen Basin mines, after it revealed the decisions would impose extra costs of just $20 million to $30 million a year, when it had issued dire warnings in 2023 that it faced an impost of $1.3 billion dollars annually across its operations.
