In two separate applications for protected action ballot orders, senior members of the Fair Work Commission have rejected employer arguments that the applicant union had not been genuinely seeking an agreement – but one of the unions says the Fair Work Act needs to be amended to speed up the approval process.
The federal government has attacked the Opposition's "replacement wage" approach to paid parental leave, maintaining it is inequitable and based on European-style insurance schemes unsuitable for Australia.
The ETU has obtained an undertaking from major builder Grocon not to stop union delegates employed by electrical contractor KLM Group Limited from coming onto its troubled Myer Emporium site in Melbourne's CBD, during a Federal Court general protections hearing yesterday.
Victorian emergency call-takers and dispatchers will continue their long-running bans after the Fair Work Commission in the early hours of this morning dismissed an application by the Emergency Services Telecommunications Agency to suspend industrial action for three months.
In the first 12 months of the FWC's timeliness benchmarks, tribunal members fell just short of meeting the targets for delivery of all reserved decisions.
Private use of employer-provided and salary-sacrificed cars will be subject to the fringe benefit tax from April next year, in one of a range of measures announced by the federal government this morning to fund its $3.8 billion decision to bring forward the shift from a carbon tax to an emissions trading scheme.
The Fair Work Commission will reconsider the reinstatement of a Barwon Health anaesthetist sacked for misconduct at Geelong Hospital, after a full bench found the initial decision on his unfair dismissal claim contained significant errors of fact.
The CPSU has a genuine interest in United Voice's bid to expand its representation rules to cover Queensland's private prisons and has the right to have its objection heard, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal President Jennifer Acton will convene a conference on pay rates in road transport after industry participants failed to convince tribunal members of the merits of their proposed approaches during consultations on its first remuneration order.
In what looms as the second major equal pay case under the Fair Work Act following the ASU's successful claim for social and community workers, United Voice will today lodge an application seeking a $10 per hour increase for early childhood educators.
