The FWC has declined to halt a ballot for a proposed agreement, finding a waste management company did not breach good faith bargaining obligations by allegedly "blindsiding" the TWU when it unilaterally put the deal to its workforce.
Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act amendments that abolished "work-arounds" allowing employers to dodge genuine bargaining have been instrumental in workers winning fair wage increases, the MEU has told the review of the legislation.
The Federal Court has criticised Shine Lawyers' "excessive" legal fees and "Rolls Royce" registration process while approving a settlement in a WA stolen wages class action set to leave group members with as little as $10,000 each.
The ETU is pursuing the MBA's NSW branch over what the union claims were misrepresentations about potential huge penalties against anyone involved in a rally protesting the federal government's decision to put the CFMEU's construction division into administration.
An engineer who lost a close relative in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict was clearly offended when a manager directed him to move his desk into a project "war room", but his refusal still provided a valid reason for his dismissal, the FWC has found.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has today started investigating whether a sacked CFMEU construction and general division NSW branch official breached the administration's anti-avoidance laws when he allegedly "improperly" gained remote access to CCTV cameras in a union office, while he also launched an inquiry into the MBAV.
The FAAA's bid to expunge inferior rates of pay for labour hire cabin crew placed at Jetstar looks likely to be arbitrated in April, after the union raised concerns that the airline's settlement proposal might amount to unlawful avoidance of the Fair Work Act's same-job, same-pay provisions.
Compulsory post-PABO conferences further complicate an already onerous process, with little or no benefit, the ACTU, ANMF and CFMEU have told the review of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act, while the Ai Group says the conferences are "often worthwhile" and can avert industrial action.
Ahead of next year's election that might deliver them the balance of power, eight independent MPs have thrown their weight behind ACCI calls to increase the small business-defining headcount from 15 to "at least" 25, so employers can focus on serving customers "rather than wading through burdensome red tape"..
Sacked CFMEU construction division officials challenging the federal government's constitutional right to administer its branches say the "truth" behind August's law changes is that they take democratic control from members if Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt considers it in the "public interest", while leaving it for him to decide whether to give it back.
