Woolworths has failed in its bid to vary the Retail Award to "clarify" that the instrument covers its burgeoning online fulfilment operations, avoiding potentially significant knock-on effects for the e-commerce, road transport and distribution industries.
The RBA will put its bargaining offer directly to employees this month, governor Philip Lowe told an inquiry this morning, after failing to reach agreement with FSU.
Scott Morrison's former policy director has been given extra time to pursue an adverse action case alleging discrimination against one of Australia's best-connected lobbying firms, which claims he resigned after it denied him a stake in the business.
A FWC full bench has trimmed a union-sought extension to three zombie deals covering more than 500 IT workers after factoring in the Secure Jobs legislation's inherent "policy preference" for agreements negotiated under the Fair Work Act.
Education unions intend to hit the NSW Minns Government with "intense political action" after it proposed to pin three 2.5% annual pay rises on the back of a planned increase of up to 12%, while the author of a "blueprint" report is urging both parties to get "creative".
A charity did not "intend" to sack a casual carer seeking to resume shifts after recovering from a back injury, but its dithering and poor communications nevertheless "had that effect", the FWC has found.
In a significant decision on what constitutes a valid application, the FWC has allowed a general protections claim to proceed despite the worker submitting a blank form.
FWC President Adam Hatcher will convene a directions hearing on Wednesday for what might be the first substantive test of the Secure Jobs' intractable bargaining declaration provisions, after the United Firefighters Union sought to break an impasse with Fire Rescue Victoria over wage rises for thousands of firefighters.
The FWC has extended time for a worker to lodge an adverse action case after he mistakenly filed an unfair dismissal claim, finding his refusal to sign his employer's letter terminating his employment did not excuse its subsequent failure to provide written confirmation.
The High Court has held that an employer is not vicariously liable for an injury to a resort worker from his colleague urinating on him after returning drunk to a studio they had to share.
