The very future of enterprise bargaining in female-dominated industries is at stake as a result of yesterday's Fair Work Australia majority ruling on equal remuneration, according to Vice President Graeme Watson, the lone dissenter on the bench.
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Up to 150,000 social and community service workers will receive pay increases of up to 41% - but with an eight-year phase-in - after the first equal remuneration ruling under the Fair Work Act.
The National Retailers Association will today argue in the Federal Court that Fair Work Australia was correct in reaching its decision to allow 90-minute after-school retail shifts and that the ruling didn't bring about conditions that would lead to indirect discrimination.
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In a ruling likely to stoke employer fears of a rise in demarcation disputes, a FWA full bench has rejected an SDA bid to exclude the NUW from representing about 1400 workers at Woolworths' main distribution centre in Brisbane, saying the Fair Work Act has changed the traditional approach to such applications.
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A tribunal has ordered the male owner-operator of a fast food franchise to pay $12,000 in compensation to a 15-year-old female employee whose bottom he repeatedly squeezed and pinched.
HSU investigation "nearing conclusion" says FWA; Registry rejects discontinuance not signed by employee; and Former Victorian IR minister resigns from Parliament.
A coal mining agreement containing a controversial "opt-out" clause that the CFMEU (mining & energy division) challenged in a long legal battle has been approved, with undertakings, by Fair Work Australia.
