After a withering assessment of the Queensland justice department's performance management processes, the State IRC has over-ruled its refusal to make permanent an acting senior legal officer engaged on successive short-term contracts.
In its first use of the new power to unilaterally amend the terms of substandard proposed agreements, the FWC has signalled it will rewrite provisions in three Aldi enterprise deals that leave storepersons worse off, to enable their approval.
A disability support worker who lodged a general protections claim against a man with quadriplegia for allegedly forcing him to resign as a carer must pay part of his legal costs after holding out for too long on a settlement.
Grill'd is lauding a newly-approved agreement that it says will result in its workers being the best-paid fast food workers across the nation, while the SDA says that Grill'd only agreed not to systematically underpay workers after months of union pressure.
Almost a year after orders became available under Labor's landmark same-job, same-pay laws, a review of progress by Workplace Express indicates there have been about 50 decisions, with the MEU, UWU, AMIEU and SDA accounting for more than 70% of them.
Workers at Woodside's Pluto 2 LNG expansion in the Pilbara have overwhelmingly voted down head contractor Bechtel's proposed agreement, while Rio Tinto's Paraburdoo iron ore workers are set to receive a pay rise, announced shortly after unions kicked-off their majority support campaign.
Property giant Brookfield has settled a case with a senior executive retrenched ahead of her return from parental leave, after the company admitted it "fell short" but claimed it has improved its practices.
The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.
The ACTU has slammed the Albanese Government's decision to dump its commitment to guaranteeing a weekly minimum of 30 paid hours for short-term workers on the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme.
The FWC has found a flexible working request invalid, because of its "tenuous" connection to the worker's caring responsibilities and the strain his absence would have imposed on other workers.
