A Coles worker sacked for "interacting" with shoplifters in defiance of company policy has had her one-minute-late adverse action application binned, after the FWC rejected her bid to "pin" responsibility on the SDA, while at the same time affirming that the deadline is not a "mere technicality".
The FWC has accepted a casual worker's five-weeks-late unfair dismissal claim after finding that the employer gave him the impression that his employment would continue pending an investigation, and then ignored any further contact attempts.
Two recycling industry workers have been allowed to keep 30% of their redundancy payments after the FWC accepted that while their former employer found them acceptable alternative employment, it involved moving from a "nice, clean" office to a "dusty, malodorous" one.
Ahead of the October 26 State election, Queensland unions are set to launch a campaign today to lift the current public sector parental leave entitlement of 15 weeks to 18 weeks, plus an extra eight weeks for workers with five years service.
The PSA says it will "demand" the NSW IRC order a 5.2% minimum pay rise over 12 months plus super for thousands of public servants, after the tribunal recommended the Minns Government resolve salaries disputes by allowing it to arbitrate and potentially facilitate mutual gains bargaining under the State IR Act's new Chapter 2A provisions.
The SDA and UWU are jointly seeking same-job, same-pay orders at distribution giant Metcash that could lift the pay of on-hire warehouse workers by up to $12,700.
An on-hire underground mineworker placed at South32's Cannington silver, lead and zinc mine in Queensland is seeking same-job, same-pay orders to put him and his colleagues on the same footing as the resource giant's directly-engaged workers.
A FWC full bench has dismissed an employer's objections to extending a zombie agreement for a second time, because moving the covered employees onto the award might "disturb the basis" upon which bargaining for a replacement deal is proceeding.
The ASU has won a supported bargaining authorisation to bolster negotiations with the ACT Government for a multi-enterprise deal for social and community services workers employed by 17 funding-reliant organisations.
The aviation industry is now firmly on the frontlines of the battle to equalise pay for directly-employed and labour hire workers working side-by-side, after cabin crew unions made further applications for same-job, same-pay orders against labour suppliers to the Qantas group.
