Unions should no longer be default bargaining agents under a revised Fair Work Act, stevedoring company POAGS has argued in its submission to the review of the legislation, while the MUA says FWA is processing applications to halt unprotected industrial action with "unseemly haste".
A sacked employee who rejected a $15,000 offer to settle his adverse action claim has had costs awarded against him, with the Federal Magistrates Court finding it was unreasonable of him not to accept the money.
Private sector rates of pay up 3.7% annually, 0.9% in quarter; Bandt says bill will help resolve bargaining disputes; TWU fails to overturn order to pay Qantas $700,000-plus; Full court reserves decision in JJ Richards; FWA issues directions for Victorian public sector workplace determination; and Rio Tinto forging ahead with automation plans.
The AiG has called for a return to "voluntary bargaining"; the introduction of "individual" enterprise agreements; the revival of employer greenfields deals; a national long service leave standard; doctor's certificates for absent employees; and significant changes to transfer of business and general protections laws.
HSU says case study highlights need for return of arbitration; Inequality the only sure result of deregulated IR, says Buchanan; Change Act to give public sector workers access to arbitration, says SPSF; and Churches should be outside Fair Work Act, Scientologists argue.
Bargaining representatives who fail to participate in negotiations should lose their rights, the CPSU-SPSF says in a submission to the review of the Fair Work Act.
The Qantas and Cochlear disputes demonstrate the need to re-examine the triggers for arbitration of damaging and intractable disputes, according to leading labour law academics.
Qantas was forced into locking out its workforce and grounding the airline because of the Fair Work Act's removal of prohibited content provisions, it says in its submission to the review of the Fair Work Act. Meanwhile, the BCA is seeking restrictions on bargaining content to increase employers' operational flexibility.
The ACTU is seeking to remove "matters pertaining" restrictions on bargaining content and extend time for lodging unfair dismissal claims from 14 days to 60 days, in its submission to the review of the Fair Work Act.
The ASU and Queensland betting agency TattsBet have been granted a renewed anti-discrimination exemption that allows the agency to offer higher redundancy pay to older workers.
