Fair Work Australia has rejected a bargaining agent's bid for paid leave to attend negotiations, ruling employers' good faith obligations don't extend that far and it is essentially a voluntary job.
In an important ruling, FWA has found that wharfies at Patrick's Melbourne container terminal have been taking unprotected industrial action by participating in a "go-slow" that has cut productivity by a third, and has ordered them to stop.
An employee whose lawyer lodged his adverse action claim late has won his appeal against an earlier decision to deny him extra time, with a Fair Work Australia full bench holding it was unreasonable to expect him to do more than he had done.
Private sector wage rates excluding bonuses in the private sector are rising at 4% a year in trend terms - the highest rate in two years - while the sector's rates including bonuses in the private sector are growing more rapidly than in any period since 2008, according to the ABS.
Fair Work Australia has suspended the entry permits of two CFMEU construction and general division NSW branch officials for three months, after the Federal Court found they had breached the Fair Work Act's entry provisions and ordered them to pay penalties.
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In a landmark ruling, a Fair Work Australia full bench has found today that about 200,000 social and community services employees are receiving less pay than public sector workers performing similar duties and that the disparity is partly gender-driven, but has urged parties to agree on a remedy before further hearings in August.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has today ruled in favour of making an equal remuneration order to rectify a partially-gender-based disparity between the pay of social and community services workers and employees in state and local government, but wants to hear further submissions on the extent of changes to wage classifications.
The NSW IRC will become a "rubber stamp" if the NSW Government proceeds with plans to limit the tribunal's wage-setting power in the public sector, according to its President, Justice Roger Boland.
