An FWC presidential member has approved a bakery franchise agreement with undertakings, while emphasising that the BOOT involves a "balancing exercise" rather than a line-by-line comparison with underlying awards.
An employer must pay its former chief information officer more than $200,000 in interest on a $477,400 payout plus partial indemnity costs after it failed to convince Victoria's Court of Appeal that three offers of compromise it rejected in 2013 were not genuine.
The AWU suspects that iron ore mining giant Fortescue Metals Group is set to move its production workforce onto a newly-approved non-union agreement for a related entity.
FWC seeking comment on accelerated PABO process; CFMEU withdraws Loy Yang strike notice; Qantas ground handlers vote up new deal; and Alcoa asking workers to take unpaid leave
AGL says it will lock workers out indefinitely from its Loy Yang power station in Victoria, in response to plans for a 24-hour protected strike by CFMEU members, while the State Government has confirmed it will seek to terminate industrial action.
A merged agreement for two University of NSW business units lifts the pay of some teachers by 20%, boosts job security for about 60 positions and removes a significant barrier to employees' progression up the salary scale.
The FWC has given a contracting company two weeks to redeploy a school cleaner it summarily dismissed after he ditched his uniform as part of a deliberate "campaign of disobedience".
Private sector enterprise agreements approved in the September quarter paid an average wage rise of 3.4% a year, after construction deals providing substantial annual increases helped to lifted bargained wage deals out of the doldrums, new Department of Employment data reveals.
