Qantas long-pilots have overwhelmingly voted up a new enterprise agreement, which includes a pay freeze but provides a pathway to introduce a fleet of Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.
A tribunal has found that the Australian Human Rights Commission denied employees with intellectual disabilities procedural fairness when it approved a discrimination exemption for a widely used tool to assess disability wages.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has revealed it is investigating "serious allegations" of cartel conduct in the ACT that have been aired in the Heydon Royal Commission, while police have charged a royal commission witness with perjury.
The FSU says it "cautiously" welcomes ANZ's move to boost female employees' super contributions, but maintains the best way to boost their super balances is to improve base pay rates and remove salary caps.
Agreements covering nurses at three Melbourne private hospitals allegedly made without employer consent are about to come back under the microscope, with the Kaizen Group next week seeking special leave to challenge in the High Court a finding that the FWC was entitled to approve them.
The FWC has dismissed a request to correct a bullying decision that mistakenly said a company's general and HR managers arrived unannounced to berate an employee, when in fact they called in advance.
An FWC full bench has highlighted the importance of scrutinising the "totality of material" lodged to support the approval of agreements, after it quashed a deal that was passed despite "inconsistent" declarations from a HR manager about compliance with mandatory pre-approval steps.
Victorian Small Business Minister Adem Somyurek has resigned after an inquiry into bullying allegations against him found that he had made inappropriate physical contact with his chief of staff and been verbally aggressive to her and another staffer.
