Unions have doubled down on objections to an Australian Industry Group draft working-from-home clause proposed for the clerks award, claiming it will create a two-tiered system, confound both employers and workers and violates new penalty rates protections.
Industry super fund Cbus has been hit with a $23.5 million penalty for delaying payment of death benefits and total and permanent disability claims to thousands of members.
The Federal Court has found that disputes about same-job, same-pay protected rates should come before the FWC in the first instance, while it has agreed to stay court proceedings until the Commission determines a SJSP dispute involving Workpac on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine.
The TWU has filed draft orders seeking a minimum hourly rate of up to $60 an hour for "last mile" gig delivery workers and contractors, but a potential consent position it has reached with some Road Transport Advisory Group members would set a lower floor.
Racing Victoria has failed to persuade the FWC to hold off considering its chief veterinarian's claims that it pressured her to declare horses fit to race, a member noting that while the case had "substantial overlap" with an adverse action matter initiated in the Federal Court, they would move at different paces and address different questions.
The TWU is hoping a consent position reached with DoorDash and Uber Eats for a "world-leading" hourly-rates safety net will prompt the FWC to include the agreed pay and conditions in a minimum standards order for the industry.
The case billed as the first substantive test of the FWC's new gig economy unfair contracts powers has been quietly binned, after a self-represented Uber driver discontinued it earlier this month.
Bechtel is using good faith bargaining and registered organisations laws in an extraordinary bid to exclude the Offshore Alliance and key officials from bargaining for a Pluto Train 2 Project agreement, after accusing the MEU and AWU partnership of taking an "unnecessarily provocative, obstructionist, unreasonable" approach to negotiations.
A FWC member has taken into account an experienced lawyer's stray comma, an apparent formatting problem and the FWC's tardy notification of an issue in absolving a worker of any blame for her 35-day-late unfair dismissal application.
The FWC has made its first "community of interest" determination for a closing power station, clearing the way for displaced workers to be supported by an Energy Industry Jobs Plan.
