Grill'd is lauding a newly-approved agreement that it says will result in its workers being the best-paid fast food workers across the nation, while the SDA says that Grill'd only agreed not to systematically underpay workers after months of union pressure.
Delay for junior rates case; First hearing for just transition case next week; Hatcher to chair McCallum debate; and Mental health claims up substantially.
A nurse and one-time member of the ANMF Victorian branch council has this week learned his quest to topple the union's incumbent leadership fell flat, had his bid to establish a rival union knocked out, and failed to convince a FWC member to recuse herself from dealing with his bullying claim.
The race discrimination commissioner is urging employers to curb "structural" or "embedded" racism that is stymieing inclusion, while reiterating a call for a positive duty to eliminate race bias in the workplace.
Almost a year after orders became available under Labor's landmark same-job, same-pay laws, a review of progress by Workplace Express indicates there have been about 50 decisions, with the MEU, UWU, AMIEU and SDA accounting for more than 70% of them.
Workers at Woodside's Pluto 2 LNG expansion in the Pilbara have overwhelmingly voted down head contractor Bechtel's proposed agreement, while Rio Tinto's Paraburdoo iron ore workers are set to receive a pay rise, announced shortly after unions kicked-off their majority support campaign.
Property giant Brookfield has settled a case with a senior executive retrenched ahead of her return from parental leave, after the company admitted it "fell short" but claimed it has improved its practices.
Victoria's new shadow IR minister, Richard Welch, has promised to bring "forward-looking leadership" to his portfolios, having once invented an early form of motion-tracking AI and built a factory in India from which he developed and exported products for more than a decade.
The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.
