A FWC expert panel has this afternoon made an emergency contractual chain order that will require companies at the top of the supply chain to review petrol prices fortnightly and pay enough to cover owner-driver and transport businesses' increased fuel costs.
The FWC has dismissed claims that an employer undermined good faith bargaining obligations by suspending and then proposing to sack a union delegate who grabbed the shirt of a child patron at a sports centre.
The FWC has found a private health care provider should re-start consultations about removing a "legacy" condition of paid meal breaks for its longest-serving nurses, after it told them the apparently undocumented benefit is no longer "an option".
A senior FWC member has used an experienced Jetstar aircraft maintenance engineer's unsuccessful challenge to his sacking to emphasise that "hazing" is no longer considered "funny", after he left two apprentices stranded six metres in the air under a Boeing 787 wing while he went to lunch.
The NSW IRC's significant increases ordered today will result in midwives and registered and enrolled nurses at the top of the pay scale becoming the best paid in Australia.
The FWC has upheld the summary dismissal of a postie caught speeding on his motorcycle on the footpath and "hanging out", in a ruling that exposes the extent to which Australia Post tracks the location, speed and work intensity of its workers.
The NSW IRC has today accepted the NSWNMA's position that their public sector members' work is undervalued, awarding heavily frontloaded increases of up to 28% over three years.
The RTBU will argue in the first right to disconnect dispute hearing that an on-call allowance fails to adequately compensate a worker and the FWC should find reasonable his refusal to answer or make calls on his days off.
A FWC expert panel is seeking urgent feedback on a draft contractual chain order to ensure road transport workers can from the start of next week recoup higher fuel costs caused by the conflict in the Middle East.
