More working days lost, as PABOs burgeon; Super Retail suppression orders upheld; Most rapid membership growth in youngest workers: ACTU; and NSW IRC seminar on awards.
The ASU says lawyers at Maurice Blackburn are pressing ahead with a ban on recording billable hours today despite being stood down, while members are "outraged" at its continuing refusal to provide more than four days reproductive leave despite publicly campaigning for ten.
The UWU has defeated a federal government attempt to end strikes by Serco employees running immigration detention centres, after the FWC found it not unusual for detainees to climb on roofs, set off fire alarms or endure brief lockdowns, as occurred during the industrial action.
The ETU has lodged an urgent Federal Court bid to challenge FWC orders that suspended industrial action across Sydney's trains network until July, arguing a full bench wrongly treated rail unions as an "undifferentiated whole" and unreasonably advantaged the employers.
Trickle of FWC disputes over RtD; Lattouf leads court's livestream top 40; Victorian police bargaining dispute over after deal voted up; MUA loses appeal in "voluntary" work case.
A FWC full bench says it suspended industrial action afflicting Sydney's rail network partly to give the RTBU's leadership a chance to "re-establish a greater degree of control" amid suggestions some workers have been going rogue in pushing for a more radical approach.
The FWC has today refused to make a s418 anti-strike order against the RTBU, after finding a "distinct lack of evidence" that it organised a covert campaign to encourage train crew to take sick leave "en masse" that has led to serious disruption of the large parts of the Sydney passenger rail network.
The NSW Government's urgent tandem bid today to pause industrial action that is causing chaos across the Sydney train network will be heard by the FWC in two expedited hearings tomorrow and on Wednesday, while President Adam Hatcher has recommended that unions suspend industrial action to aid a possible resolution.
ACTU president Michele O'Neil has accused Nippon Paper's Opal subsidiary of abusing its power by locking out about 300 workers from a Latrobe Valley mill for three weeks and counting, after seven CFMEU members took six hours of protected action.
In a significant judgment on the statutory nature of a "proposed enterprise agreement", a Federal Court has rejected arguments that rail unions lost protection of their industrial action once the bargaining focus changed from a single to a multi-employer deal.
