The FWC has found employers cannot rely on a standard enterprise agreement renegotiation clause to avoid being roped into a multi-employer deal that might cover more than 9,000 workers, in a decision resolving the final procedural hurdle to the ASU's bid for a bulk bargaining authorisation for eight Melbourne councils.
The FWC's Collaborative Approaches interest-based bargaining program is a top priority but its capacity to provide the free service is under threat, tribunal President Adam Hatcher has told a NSW IR Society event.
The Crisafulli Government is playing hardball with its public school teachers and pressing for full arbitration of its bargaining claim - which could take two years to finalise - rather than focusing on matters on which they have not reached consent, according to the Queensland Teachers' Union.
The NSW Industrial Court has fined the state's nurses and midwives union $130,000 for its "flagrant and unapologetic" flouting of multiple anti-strike orders during pay negotiations with the Minns Government that have since morphed into a major gender undervaluation case.
Health union VAHPA is holding a special general meeting to discuss its proposed merger with HACSU, according to a rank and file group concerned about an alleged failure to consult members.
A Victoria Police special taskforce has charged former CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka for allegedly sending threatening emails to the CFMEU's administrator, while an ACCC probe has prompted John Holland to ditch deals that limit its choice of labour hire providers.
FWC president Adam Hatcher has fleshed out procedural reforms for general protections claims involving dismissals, which have surged to 57% above the three-year average in the three months to September, while he has also foreshadowed the next areas he will target.
A detailed analysis of the "principal purpose test" for assessing award coverage has led the FWC to find a salesperson earning more than $200,000 a year is not covered by the commercial sales award.
The FWC is considering legal action against former senior officers of the CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch after finding they diverted more than $300,000 in member's funds to re-elect now-ousted HSU leader Diana Asmar.
Eighteen months after retail giant Aldi sought to insert a clause in a proposed agreement to render it immune to same-job, same-pay applications, it is facing a SJSP claim that the SDA says could lift on-hire warehouse workers' base pay by almost a third.
