Washery employees at two of Peabody Energy's Bowen Basin coal mines will experience a "small but significant reduction in their overall remuneration" after an FWC full bench upheld the mining giant's application to terminate its agreement.
An accountancy firm manager who pursued a secret plan to sell part of his employer's business to Macquarie Bank for a $5 million personal profit has failed to convince a court that he was wrongfully dismissed.
Coles agreement termination bid "premature", says FWC; High Court refuses special leave to Resmed on MSD ruling; FWC to lead classifications review for Catholic schools under New Approaches deal; Changing of guard at United Voice NSW branch; and $40,000 fine for director who underpaid drivers.
An FWC presidential member has accepted the legitimacy of employers negotiating with employees to take a pay cut to ride out a business downturn, but has found it unfair to dismiss the only one who refused the 10% reduction.
A second-term Turnbull Government will adopt the "overwhelming majority" of the Heydon Royal Commission's recommendations, including outlawing "corrupting benefits" such as those involved in the AWU-Cleanevent deal and giving courts the power to disqualify repeat-offender union officials, Employment Minister Michaelia Cash said today.
Jetstar ground handling employees will earn bonuses of up to $600 a year for reducing baggage "misdirects" under a side deal to a proposed new enterprise agreement that delivers new allowances for towing and training.
The Turnbull Government is set to detail its election pledge to end "secret deals" between unions and employers as part of its response to the recommendations of the Heydon Royal Commission.
The FWC will make a workplace determination for Essential Energy that will include the hotly-disputed issues of compulsory redundancies and outsourcing, after the utility and unions failed to reach agreement in three weeks of negotiations that ended on Tuesday.
In an important ruling, a full Federal Court has made it more difficult for parties disgruntled with FWC private arbitrations to seek court orders to quash the rulings and have them re-heard.
