WA Catholic education employers have won a rare voting request order allowing them to put a single interest multi-deal to a ballot despite the IEU's opposition, as the union accuses them of using the Secure Jobs tool as a "battering ram".
Unions' pursuit of a 24%-over-three-years pay rise for Endeavour Energy workers has fallen short after a FWC full bench instead made an intractable bargaining determination delivering 17.8% over four years, rejecting numerous claims the employer did not bargain in good faith.
In the latest public sector wage-cap fracture, Northern Territory public servants are weighing a 1% above-cap offer, in-line with a FWC recommendation, but still below the 15% NT police received.
A FWC full bench majority has quashed a member's refusal to grant an intractable bargaining declaration for highly-paid deputies at a NSW coal mine, finding he wrongly considered that the tribunal's arbitration powers must not be "lightly engaged".
The FWC's Collaborative Approaches interest-based bargaining program is a top priority but its capacity to provide the free service is under threat, tribunal President Adam Hatcher has told a NSW IR Society event.
The NSW Industrial Court has fined the state's nurses and midwives union $130,000 for its "flagrant and unapologetic" flouting of multiple anti-strike orders during pay negotiations with the Minns Government that have since morphed into a major gender undervaluation case.
The Offshore Alliance and ETU are up in arms after Bechtel warned them that unless they drop their "intractable" 30% wage demands for the Pluto Train 2 Project by Monday, it will bar them from bargaining meetings and deal only with the AMWU and CFMEU.
Psychiatrist staff specialists in NSW public hospitals have won a temporary 10% "stop-gap" attraction and retention allowance, after a State IRC full bench accepted they had established a special case to address an "acute shortage", partly a result of "comparatively low pay", that is driving a reduction in the quality of mental health care.
A FWC full bench has expressed a provisional view that it should make an intractable bargaining determination reflecting the employer's proposal, other than for a previously agreed term the UWU "resiled" from.
In the wake of NT public sector employees rejecting a 3% a year wage offer, the Finocchiaro Government has escalated a bargaining dispute to the FWC, after baselessly accusing unions of supporting the previous Labor Government's wage cap, which the CLP at the time vehemently opposed.
