The FWC has expressed "little hope" a Victorian bus operator, the TWU and an unregistered union will strike a deal within a two-week negotiating period before heading to a full bench for an intractable bargaining workplace determination, following a string of failed ballots and a "reversion" to earlier or entrenched positions.
High Court rebuffs academic pay challenge; "No guarantee" lawyers will respond before deadline, says FWC; ABC presenter free to contest sacking; and Bench rejects consolidation order appeal.
The AEU is conducting a meeting this afternoon to consider a revised offer for Victorian public school teachers that includes a $2000 payment, plus an extra 1% annual lump sum for many, and an agreement-enshrined cap on face-to-face teaching hours.
In a decision further expanding the breadth of flexibility requests, a senior FWC member has "with some hesitation" found that a warehouse's ban on mobile phones falls under the statutory definition of a "working arrangement" that can be changed.
The FSU is pushing the Commonwealth Bank for agreement-enshrined limits on its ability to monitor workers and use the data, claiming outdated laws are otherwise giving employers "free rein" to monitor every keystroke or conversation and keep tabs on toilet breaks.
FWC to make rare costs order after drug dealing admission; Sacking over flight delay unfair; Text message proves worker resigned; and FIFO worker dismissed when employer stopped paying for flights.
The FWC has dismissed a UFU bid to have it arbitrate a proposed income protection allowance, finding the union's practice of raising matters with Fire Rescue Victoria's people and culture executive director failed to invoke the dispute resolution procedure.
The FWC has ordered quarrelling parties to refrain from using artificial intelligence tools in their communications, to avoid unnecessarily "lengthy" and "accusatory" AI-prepared emails.
Victoria's shadow attorney-general breached workplace conduct rules when he posted "Tick tock Jacinta Allan. Victoria is coming for Labor with baseball bats" on his social media channels, the state's parliamentary standards watchdog has found.
