A BHP subsidiary unreasonably docked by 5% the wages of Pilbara power workers who engaged in protected partial work bans, the FWC has ruled, reducing the discount to 2% after registering "significant concerns" with the resources giant's calculation methodology.
RBA monetary policy board member and former FWC president Iain Ross has dismissed fears Australia could experience a damaging wage-price spiral despite the recent sharp rises in inflation
The FWC has declared the long-running Queensland Rail dispute resolved following a "substantial" and "intensive" undertaking, while strongly urging workers vote to accept seven in-principle deals rather than holding out for an intractable bargaining process.
A FWC full bench has rebuffed an employer's challenge to a same-job, same-pay ruling, in its first full bench consideration of the interaction between SJSP legislation and transfer of business provisions.
An unregistered Sydney Airport union has failed to win a protected action ballot order after making a "confusing" attempt to completely redraft its application through amendments, while the TWU has secured one during bargaining for the same deal.
A meat union delegate who has had hundreds of thousands of dollars in employer penalties paid into his union's coffers has added almost $90,000 more to his tally, this time from Woolworths.
Hundreds of Sydney Trains signallers and controllers are in line for average payouts of about $40,000 under an $18.1 million class action settlement resolving allegations it failed to recognise handovers and actual hours worked, or to provide proper breaks.
The FWC has expressed "little hope" a Victorian bus operator, the TWU and an unregistered union will strike a deal within a two-week negotiating period before heading to a full bench for an intractable bargaining workplace determination, following a string of failed ballots and a "reversion" to earlier or entrenched positions.
The FSU is pushing the Commonwealth Bank for agreement-enshrined limits on its ability to monitor workers and use the data, claiming outdated laws are otherwise giving employers "free rein" to monitor every keystroke or conversation and keep tabs on toilet breaks.
