A FWC member has stopped short of accusing a "lawyer" of peddling false hope among deactivated Uber drivers and riders while dismissing the latest of 50 near-identical unfair dismissal applications to land on her desk in the past six months.
The agency that advises the Federal Government on the pricing of aged care says the FWC's historic work value case will result in average pay increases of 11.5% for nurses working in the sector.
The IEU's WA branch has leapt right out of the gates to become the first union to seek a single interest multi-employer bargaining authorisation, using the Albanese Government's Secure Jobs changes to compel Catholic school employers to negotiate on behalf of thousands of general and education support workers.
NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says the Minns Government will only sign up to Federal Labor's proposed laws covering "employee-like" workers if they are at least as strong as those in her home state.
A FWC member has put in a plug for a "likeable" casual ski instructor to be re-employed, despite rejecting his request for a time extension to challenge his sacking for allegedly competing in an obstacle race while drawing worker's compensation for an injury.
As the CFMMEU's mining and energy division eagerly awaits the result of its demerger ballot, expected to be declared on Thursday, the RTBU's Victorian branch has told a FWC bench its locomotive division will be unable to protect members' interests if allowed to disamalgamate as it does not own the money in its bank accounts.
The prevalence of non-compete clauses in low wage occupations suggests that businesses are using them to stop workers from creating rival operations and to limit their bargaining power, rather than legitimately using them to protect trade secrets and client relationships, a new survey suggests.
The NSW IRC has reinstated a police technician for the second time in six years after he was again sacked for abusive outbursts – this time targeting rail workers during industrial action that affected his commute.
In the latest of a rash of PABO decisions since new Secure Jobs provisions took effect on June 6, the FWC has ruled that an employer's bid to bypass unions and put its agreement to a vote provides exceptional circumstances to warrant using a non-AEC ballot agent.
