The FWC has approved the SDA's plan to add three women-only roles to its national executive, to guarantee 25% of the majority-female union's national executive are women, up from the current 11%.
After a withering assessment of the Queensland justice department's performance management processes, the State IRC has over-ruled its refusal to make permanent an acting senior legal officer engaged on successive short-term contracts.
In its first use of the new power to unilaterally amend the terms of substandard proposed agreements, the FWC has signalled it will rewrite provisions in three Aldi enterprise deals that leave storepersons worse off, to enable their approval.
A disability support worker who lodged a general protections claim against a man with quadriplegia for allegedly forcing him to resign as a carer must pay part of his legal costs after holding out for too long on a settlement.
Grill'd is lauding a newly-approved agreement that it says will result in its workers being the best-paid fast food workers across the nation, while the SDA says that Grill'd only agreed not to systematically underpay workers after months of union pressure.
A nurse and one-time member of the ANMF Victorian branch council has this week learned his quest to topple the union's incumbent leadership fell flat, had his bid to establish a rival union knocked out, and failed to convince a FWC member to recuse herself from dealing with his bullying claim.
Almost a year after orders became available under Labor's landmark same-job, same-pay laws, a review of progress by Workplace Express indicates there have been about 50 decisions, with the MEU, UWU, AMIEU and SDA accounting for more than 70% of them.
The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.
The FWC has found a flexible working request invalid, because of its "tenuous" connection to the worker's caring responsibilities and the strain his absence would have imposed on other workers.
The general manager of a cosmetics services chain who held dual roles that in combination paid above the high-income threshold can pursue an unfair dismissal claim because it only relates to one of her positions, the FWC has held.
