Supervisors employed at five DP World ports will vote on whether they want to bargain for a new agreement after the maritime officers' union this week won orders for a majority support ballot, but in an unusual twist Fair Work Australia has ordered that they should have the option of voting "undecided".
A Fair Work Australia full bench has quashed an earlier ruling that a casual employee was not entitled to make an unfair dismissal claim because his period of continuous service was broken when he suffered an injury that prevented him from working.
The CPSU is set to take the next step in its pursuit of a single APS-wide agreement, with its governing council expected to tomorrow endorse a framework claim for a two-year deal providing 4% annual pay rises plus generous leave and superannuation - and with a mechanism to address pay inequities between agencies.
The ACCI has accepted an AMMA proposal to work more closely together to advocate "meaningful" IR change, with both arguing the major parties' status quo position ignores existing and emerging problems with the Fair Work Act.
Australia Post was obliged to dock four hours pay each time a pair of mail officers took unlawful industrial action by refusing to comply with a management decision to reduce staffing levels on a mail sorting machine, the Federal Magistrates Court has found in rejecting a union bid to prosecute the corporation.
Fair Work Australia's first minimum wage ruling, which increased award rates by $26 a week, is one the AFPC could have made, according to its former head Professor Ian Harper, while Melbourne University's Professor Mark Wooden has argued that the June decision will almost certainly restrict the growth of low-paid jobs.
Fair Work Australia has found that a proposed agreement's coverage can satisfy the Fair Work Act's "fairly chosen" test even if it exposes a subgroup within the workforce to disadvantage due to the "tyranny of the majority", but has questioned why the AWU accepted the deal.
