Unions have called for a consumer boycott of cheeses made by Canadian-owned food giant Saputo, as they push for pay parity between a group of Tasmanian maintenance workers and their mainland counterparts.
The FWC has urged the AWU to address its unfair dismissal claim lodgement processes after the union revealed its use of an internal case management system has again played a role in an out-of-time application.
An internal power struggle is underway at the small but industrially significant aviation union, the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers' Association, with Federal Court documents revealing efforts to curtail the federal secretary's role.
Boosted delegates' rights will make workplaces more cooperative, potentially increasing productivity and workers' openness to new technologies such as artificial intelligence, according to a report that also warns unions not to fall into a trap with their paid training leave win.
The AWU has abandoned a long history of going it alone in Queensland, re-affiliating with the State's peak union body, while the Mining and Energy Union has also returned to the fold after a shorter absence.
The CFMEU will seek to overturn a recent legal representation ruling, maintaining the FWC got it wrong when it allowed a construction company to have both a barrister and a paid agent appear on its behalf.
Victoria Police rejected a crime scene officer's request for a flexible work arrangement on reasonable business grounds, the FWC has held, while urging the parties to embrace a "better than nothing" compromise.
More than 300 employees of labour provider Workpac placed at Batchfire's Callide thermal coal mine near Biloela are set to receive increases in November of up to $20,000 a year, according to the MEU, after a FWC full bench made its first same-job, same-pay ruling today.
The FWC has approved an Aldi deal with undertakings that expunge labour hire clauses designed, according to the SDA, to circumvent "same-job, same-pay" laws.
