The FWC has accepted a casual worker's five-weeks-late unfair dismissal claim after finding that the employer gave him the impression that his employment would continue pending an investigation, and then ignored any further contact attempts.
The FWC has late today declined to expedite Transgrid's application for an intractable bargaining application against the ETU, after the power company last week won a two-month suspension of the union's protected action, but lost its bid to block an order for production of documents.
Two recycling industry workers have been allowed to keep 30% of their redundancy payments after the FWC accepted that while their former employer found them acceptable alternative employment, it involved moving from a "nice, clean" office to a "dusty, malodorous" one.
The FWC will hear an employer application to vary the SCHADS award's sleepover allowance alongside a group of unions, but will exclude parts of the unions' draft determination that "go beyond the scope" of the original application.
Ahead of the October 26 State election, Queensland unions are set to launch a campaign today to lift the current public sector parental leave entitlement of 15 weeks to 18 weeks, plus an extra eight weeks for workers with five years service.
The PSA says it will "demand" the NSW IRC order a 5.2% minimum pay rise over 12 months plus super for thousands of public servants, after the tribunal recommended the Minns Government resolve salaries disputes by allowing it to arbitrate and potentially facilitate mutual gains bargaining under the State IR Act's new Chapter 2A provisions.
A FWC full bench has chosen to include in an intractable bargaining workplace determination a delegates' rights provision that closely reflects the model award term, rather than the more extensive clause sought by the TWU.
Employers and workers experienced in bargaining still misunderstand key concepts, and their knowledge gaps contribute to unrealistic expectations on both sides that constrain effective negotiations, new FWC-commissioned research has found.
The SDA and UWU are jointly seeking same-job, same-pay orders at distribution giant Metcash that could lift the pay of on-hire warehouse workers by up to $12,700.
An on-hire underground mineworker placed at South32's Cannington silver, lead and zinc mine in Queensland is seeking same-job, same-pay orders to put him and his colleagues on the same footing as the resource giant's directly-engaged workers.
