The NSWNMA has secured its first private sector IBD, after it agreed to a 16% pay rise over four years for Healthscope nurses and midwives, but remained at an impasse on annual leave provisions.
The Albanese Government's legislation to protect award penalty and overtime rates, passed by Parliament on Thursday, has now become law after Governor-General Sam Mostyn granted Royal Assent, while the workplace protection orders legislation is set to be considered by the Senate.
An employer that remunerated a live-in caretaker by providing him housing rather than wages must pay him him $108,000 in unpaid entitlements, following an appeal ruling affirming he had been engaged as a part-time employee.
The Albanese Government's legislation to protect award penalty and overtime rates has passed both houses of parliament, after the Senate this morning endorsed it without further amendments.
The FWC has ordered Qube to reinstate a stevedore sacked after his manager spotted him out for dinner while on leave to grieve a relative's death, finding the worker reasonably concluded it would be unsafe to attend his shift.
The Federal Government's black coal mining LSL body has lodged a High Court appeal to a full Federal Court judgment with significant implications for the eligibility of shotfiring and explosive services workers, while the CFMEU is celebrating the removal of "loopholes and cruel anomalies" in WA's construction industry portable LSL scheme.
The High Court has refused leave to appeal a finding that an international IT company must pay long service leave to an employee who worked the bulk of his 10-year tenure in India, a few years in Victoria, but qualified under Queensland's more flexible LSL laws as he transferred in time to serve out part of his post-resignation notice period.
The Greens in a Senate inquiry report released today have backed the Albanese Government's legislation to protect award penalty and overtime rates, but have called for a minor amendment.
A FWC presidential member has declined to grant an employer's request to delay consideration of its appeal against an unfavourable long service leave ruling while it awaits the result of a related Federal Court case, taking a dim view of its attempt to move forums "midstream".
FWC President Adam Hatcher has conceded the tribunal can juggle only so many balls, placing on ice its scrutiny of potential gender bias in awards' overtime provisions after the publication of an internal research paper.
