The QNMU is backing "in the strongest terms" a Crisafulli Liberal Government pay offer said to retain a nation-leading edge for most nurses and midwives by boosting their "earning potential", while public school teachers have accepted a Queensland IRC recommendation to pause industrial action for a month.
The MUA says it has secured a new deal at Hutchison Ports that "slams the door on automation", while members at the Port of Melbourne's "robo-terminal" are in line for big pay rises after endorsing a VICT agreement that boosts consultation over AI.
NSW firefighters have won a 14% pay rise over three years, with over-inflation increases to compensate for wages going backwards during the pandemic, and a 3% component to address undervalued skills.
Burger chain Grill'd is making its second attempt to win approval of a national agreement, while the SDA's application to terminate the nominally expired deal depriving workers of award entitlements remains unresolved.
The FWC has rejected a host employer's argument that de-boning chickens is specialist work that would fall under the service provision exception, and has made same-job, same-pay orders covering two labour-hire companies that provide workers to a poultry processing plant.
A last-minute shift to direct employment for on-hire workers of one labour supplier at a major abattoir chain has failed to stymie the meat union's bid for same-job, same-pay orders.
The FWC has this week reserved its decision on the first dispute over a same-job, same-pay order, after the MEU challenged Workpac's plan to pay on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine only two months of a 12-months bonus.
On-hire workers employed by BHP's in-house labour provider and its external suppliers have today won same-job, same-pay orders, after a FWC full bench rejected arguments that the service provider exemption and a "fair and reasonable" requirement stood in the way.
The NTEU says Monash University will be liable for millions of dollars in backpay after the Federal Court today found it is required to pay casual tutors for scheduled consultations with students that don't count as part of work "associated" with tutoring.
The ETU says same-job, same-pay orders it is seeking at Chevron's Barrow Island LNG facility in WA could lift wages of labour hire workers by a mammoth $80,000 a year.
