The FWC has dismissed a UFU bid to have it arbitrate a proposed income protection allowance, finding the union's practice of raising matters with Fire Rescue Victoria's people and culture executive director failed to invoke the dispute resolution procedure.
The FWC will tomorrow hear BHP's bid to break a bargaining deadlock at its crucial Port Hedland operations, ahead of unions staging an eight-hour strike on Thursday the miner claims could cost it more than $100 million. Update: This article has been updated to reflect the FWC bringing forward the conference to tomorrow.
Qantas breached the job security clause in its licensed engineers agreement when it unilaterally removed aircraft towing duties comprising at least 25% of their current workload, the FWC has found.
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 backed a mining company's denial of a worker's request for flexible work to enable her to care for her baby, in a decision finding fairness a "neutral consideration" where both parties have acted reasonably.
Before the first Right to Disconnect dispute hearing, scheduled for this morning, Pacific National resolved the matter in a private conference, leaving the Fair Work Act's RtD provisions untested after 20 months in operation.
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 RTBU will argue in the first right to disconnect dispute hearing that an on-call allowance fails to adequately compensate a worker and the FWC should find reasonable his refusal to answer or make calls on his days off.
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.
