Speakers at an IR conference have emphasised the importance of early, transparent consultations when introducing automation and AI-related change, but a lawyer says locking into a formal process too soon is risky.
In a significant decision on the meaning of "full rate of pay" under same-job, same-pay laws and the FWC's powers to arbitrate related disputes, a Commission full bench has found that a big mining company must count service prior to SJSP orders when determining on-hire workers' classifications.
A court has ordered the FWO to pay costs for its "very late" and unexplained abandonment of an underpayments case, while highlighting its failure to "grapple" with the case's underlying problems.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has launched a new action against former HSU leader Diana Asmar, pushing for her to be banned from holding union positions because she allegedly took reprisal action against "several individuals" who made protected disclosures about the union's governance and financial management.
The FWC has acceded to BHP's request for it to bring almost 140 of its BHP OS on-hire workers in-house, to reduce the workload involved with managing multiple enterprise agreements and address "the potential for disharmony in the workforce".
The SDA has gladly dropped multiple bids for supported bargaining at McDonald's stores and franchise outlets after the FWC granted the fast food giant a nationwide single interest authorisation, clearing the way for voluntary multi-employer bargaining.
Employers have welcomed an Albanese Government promise not to require union deals in order to secure work on Commonwealth-funded construction projects, as it prepares to consult on new procurement standards to stamp out criminality and inappropriate "industrial fixers".
In a case testing the extent to which employers can withhold pay during protected industrial action, the Federal Court today conducted a hearing into the AWU's claim that Chevron unlawfully deducted loading and allowances from workers during stoppages at its WA facilities.
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.
Unions say 100% of their Inpex members have voted in favour of taking protected industrial action, weeks after they rejected the company's unilateral offer.
