In what is believed to be a first, the AMWU has secured the interim reinstatement of a shop steward because his sacking arguably breached good faith bargaining obligations.
The FWC has ordered Immigration and Border Force employees at international airports to return to work today after making an interim decision to suspend protected action.
The CPSU has confirmed it will postpone planned industrial action over the Easter long weekend at airports across Australia in the wake of yesterday's Brussels terror attacks.
Notices to employees that allegedly misrepresented union support for a proposed enterprise agreement that had the "potential to mislead" and could be characterised as "unfair" did not undermine the collective bargaining process, a FWC full bench has ruled.
Patrick and the MUA have today begun four days of assisted negotiations, despite an FWC full bench yesterday clearing the way for the union to resume industrial action.
An FWC full bench has today overruled a decision that an employer breached good faith bargaining obligations when it insisted on conducting enterprise agreement negotiations by teleconference rather than face-to-face meetings.
Changes to greenfields agreements bargaining, protected action ballots and unpaid parental leave have come into effect today, after the Federal Government's Fair Work Amendment Bill received Royal Assent yesterday.
The Fair Work Amendment Bill cleared its final hurdle this evening when the Government-controlled House of Representatives accepted changes made by Senate crossbenchers.
Federal Court calling for IR lawyer feedback; Longest low wages growth since early '90s, says RBA; and SPC Ardmona workers win extra time to consider action.
The FWC has declined to issue bargaining orders against the MUA for its conduct in negotiations with offshore oil and gas vessel operators, despite finding it misrepresented the employers' position, played "fast and loose with the truth" and behaved in a manner that raised questions about whether it was genuinely trying to make replacement agreements.
