The PSA says it will "demand" the NSW IRC order a 5.2% minimum pay rise over 12 months plus super for thousands of public servants, after the tribunal recommended the Minns Government resolve salaries disputes by allowing it to arbitrate and potentially facilitate mutual gains bargaining under the State IR Act's new Chapter 2A provisions.
A FWC full bench has chosen to include in an intractable bargaining workplace determination a delegates' rights provision that closely reflects the model award term, rather than the more extensive clause sought by the TWU.
ACTU credits Labor for record low gender pay gap; Professionals Australia appoints former UWU-officeholder as chief executive; MEU welcomes two women to its central council; and Diversity Council conducting new class research.
Clearing the way for a pregnant paralegal's adverse action claim, the FWC has found that a legal practice dismissed her when, during consultations about a potential redundancy, it proposed her resignation, and subsequently confirmed its acceptance in writing.
Employers and workers experienced in bargaining still misunderstand key concepts, and their knowledge gaps contribute to unrealistic expectations on both sides that constrain effective negotiations, new FWC-commissioned research has found.
The FWC has urged logistics company DHL to seek professional IR advice after granting the UWU nine PABOs, warning the company that taking adverse action against workers taking part in protected action carries "serious implications".
The Albanese Government has today lost a second Senate vote to force a vote on legislation clearing the way for appointment of an administrator to the CFMEU's construction branches.
The SDA and UWU are jointly seeking same-job, same-pay orders at distribution giant Metcash that could lift the pay of on-hire warehouse workers by up to $12,700.
The private operator of NSW's power transmission network has lodged an intractable bargaining application while seeking a further halt to ETU protected action that resumed today, following a three-week FWC-ordered suspension.
An on-hire underground mineworker placed at South32's Cannington silver, lead and zinc mine in Queensland is seeking same-job, same-pay orders to put him and his colleagues on the same footing as the resource giant's directly-engaged workers.
