A four-member FWC full bench has knocked back arguments by the host employer at a NSW open cut coal mine and its labour hire providers that it would be unfair and unreasonable, or even unconstitutional, to grant same-job, same-pay orders.
Dutton softens public sector WFH stance; Mining unions seeking to force Rio to bargain; Big spike in IR jobs; Exposure draft released for payday super reforms; US union density static ahead of Trump disruption; and Labour hire regulator goes after company director.
The 25% exemption rate the Ai Group has proposed for an estimated one million workers covered by the clerical award "does not adequately compensate" for the loss of penalty rates and overtime, according to ASU national secretary Emeline Gaske.
The Australian Industry Group has expressed dismay at the "skewed" drafting of a FWC survey aiming to gather information on how the clerical award currently impedes or enables working from home.
The FWC has extended time due to representative error, after a lawyer with "extensive experience in employment matters" who is also the author of an article on his firm's website about the "hurdles" to "jump over" to make an unfair dismissal claim, including the 21-day time limit, lodged a client's application four days late.
Although the Albanese Government has shelved plans for an April election due to Cyclone Alfred, prompting some parties and crossbenchers to delay key IR policy announcements, many battlefronts have already been revealed.
The FWC will next month hear a bid from former CFMEU Queensland branch assistant leader and High Court administration challenge spearhead Kane Lowth for a declaration that he is a fit and proper person to take up a job offer at another union.
Team Jetstar cabin crew have voted up an agreement variation that the TWU says will leave them and fellow labour hire colleagues at Altara about $8000 a year better off thanks to "same-job, same-pay negotiations" and a new protected rate of pay.
A FWC member has recited an employer's own correspondence and evidence in throwing out its jurisdictional objections to an adverse action case on the basis that it never dismissed the worker and she lodged the application late, in a ruling that reveals a big payout for continuing use of images of the worker's distinctive tattoos.
A guest services worker at one of the country's largest shopping centres might have avoided the sack if she had promptly returned a $130 voucher mistaken for a gift, the FWC has found.
