Failing to alert an employer to strike plans does not amount to a failure to genuinely try to reach an agreement, the FWC has ruled in rejecting a company's bid to block a protected action ballot.
RAFFWU's bid to terminate Apple's 2014 retail agreement has taken a major hit, with the tech giant's Australian workforce voting overwhelmingly in favour of a new deal and the FWC cancelling a three-day hearing while it considers whether to approve it.
An employer touting the "happy work-life balance" and above-award earning opportunities facilitated by its zombie deal has failed to save it from December's drop dead date after a FWC full bench found its incentives are "discretionary" and not incorporated into the agreement.
The Albanese Government's third tranche of IR reforms will include a new protections for domestic violence victim-survivors against workplace discrimination, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke revealed this evening.
The FSU says Commonwealth Bank retail workers forced to work through their 10-minute tea breaks for the past six years will be compensated, after it won a $3 million settlement of its $45 million Federal Court claim.
The IEU's WA branch has hit back at an employer group's submissions in its Catholic schools single interest multi-employer test case, warning against elevating the status of "irrelevant" views and declaring its construction of the legislation could create a "peculiar result".
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a Coca Cola regional technician who deliberately set the cruise control on his work van above the speed limit and repeatedly overshot it by up to 18km, rejecting claims about the alleged inaccuracy of the employer's monitoring technology.
The FWC has upheld an employer's decision to sack an electrician for s-xually harassing behaviour that included asking a new supervisor on first meeting him whether he "liked to f-ck".
The FWC has declined to approve an agreement made by a group of workers from a related company ahead of them being transferred across to the entity that was to be covered by the deal, rejecting the employer's contention that it was a minor procedural or technical error.
In a decision highlighting the importance of clear policies and adequate investigations, the FWC has ordered Rentokil to reinstate three sales workers summarily sacked for sharing their commissions after finding it a longstanding practice.
