The FWC has upbraided an early learning facility for seeking to override a part-time employee's right to predictable hours that the employer found "commercially or operationally inconvenient".
The MEU has sought High Court leave to intervene in the Coal LSL's challenge to a finding that Orica's obligation to make contributions to the scheme on behalf of shotfirers ceased in 2022 when it sold a separate business providing services to underground mines.
The FWC has delivered on its vow to expeditiously insert a far broader delegates' rights term in all awards in response to a full court last month finding its initial attempt "impermissibly confined", a judgment that prompted the Commission to thank parties for their patience because of resultant delays to approval of agreements.
A FWC full bench is giving an employer time to reconsider its refusal to provide an undertaking, while the tribunal contemplates using its new powers to unilaterally alter agreements, after finding on appeal that a recently-approved deal failed the BOOT.
A FWC full bench has approved two major infrastructure deals after receiving undertakings addressing its concerns about delegates' rights clauses in the wake of last month's full Federal Court judgment upending restrictive provisions the tribunal itself inserted in nine awards.
A FWC full bench has slightly altered the issues it will consider in its review of award part-time provisions after considering submissions and is seeking further feedback this month on the scope of a research proposal.
A business that fell deeply into debt and then collapsed after its owner's multiple sclerosis diagnosis has been absolved of making redundancy payments, after the FWC took into account its circumstances.
The MEU says a full Federal Court's quashing today of FWC decisions inserting a delegates' rights term into modern awards emphatically confirms that the Closing Loopholes laws allow workplace delegates to represent workers on site regardless of labour hire or employment arrangements.
The UWU is calling on the Albanese Government to step in to "preserve the stability" of a 15% funded pay rise for agreement-covered early childhood education and care workers and avoid a possible pay cut, after a FWC expert panel rejected calls to "front load" gender undervaluation increases to the award minimum rates.
An employer repudiated the contracts of male managers and dismissed them when it reduced their classification levels and wages to parity with female co-workers for "pay equity" reasons, as the demotions involved substantial reductions in remuneration, the FWC has found.
