Unions are urging NT public sector workers to vote down a 3% annual wage offer that complies with the Government's pay cap and reduces job security, after police voted up a record above-cap pay deal, raising questions about fairness.
The FSU is threatening to lodge a dispute with the FWC to challenge the ANZ's surprise announcement that it intends to axe of thousands of workers, giving the bank by the close of business to clarify its response to questions over alleged consultation failures.
NSW IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says a Bill providing for the CFMEU State branch's mining and energy division and its manufacturing division to disamalgamate will guard against threats or "adverse conduct", while avoiding overlapping eligibility rules for at least a decade.
The Federal Court has restrained the FWC from hearing an employer's challenge to an unfavourable interpretation of a LSL clause that is replicated in about 17 offshore agreements.
The FWC has found the ATO failed to respect the ASU's role as the representative of a legally blind worker called into a meeting to discuss a request the union made on his behalf for a 100% WFH flexibility arrangement, to avoid the need to take public transport.
In a decision affirming the UWU's right to be covered by an agreement even though it had no "capacity" to bargain, a FWC full bench has varied the approval of a Centacare deal to remove a deputy president's refusal to note its coverage and an incorrect assumption that it lacked members.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has recommended that Master Builders Victoria consider more transparent disclosure of its finances, after it failed to reveal that the industry's redundancy fund is the source of most of the $10 million a year - more than 40% of its income - it receives in grants.
Shadow IR Minister Tim Wilson says he comes to the portfolio with "fresh thinking" and as a "sponge for new ideas", while he predicts AI will increasingly propel people to combine salaries, side hustles and shared equity schemes.
The Federal Court has today rejected BHP Coal's bid to stay the same-job, same-pay orders for its Bowen Basin mines, which had been due to take effect within days.
The FWC is introducing reforms to tackle a blowout in general protections claims and the paid agents using them as a "business model", while it is also incorporating AI into major aspects of its work, according to its President, Adam Hatcher.