Employers are obliged to issue notices of representation rights to all workers covered by the scope of unions' proposed deals, a FWA full bench has found, rejecting a security company's argument that the LHMU couldn't apply for a protected action ballot order as the bargaining representative for employees who hadn't been issued such notices.
Fair Work Australia has engaged its little-used "public interest" power to conditionally approve two agreements containing voluntary hours clauses, despite finding they would not make employees better off.
Employer and union hit with bargaining orders; Majority support determination at Monadelphous; Nurses suspend industrial action; and Mixed results for AMWU on default super
In the first contested application to terminate an agreement under the Fair Work Act, FWA has given detailed consideration to its discretionary power to end enterprise deals, including the new Act's "appropriateness" test.
A VECCI bid to vary 81 modern awards to allow casual and part-time employees to work shorter shifts is "hopeless", an abuse of process and should be struck out, the ACTU has argued in a preliminary FWA hearing today.
The result of Saturday's election is in the balance, with neither major party yet securing a majority, but a host of IR figures have been successful in winning seats in Parliament.
Free market theorists have failed to take into account the unique character of the labour market in crafting their prescriptions for IR policy, a leading US labour economist has argued, while a senior FWA member in separate remarks said he believed a consensus now existed on the need for an employment safety-net.
Lock-out at Tahmoor begins tonight; Comments weren't sexual harassment, tribunal finds; Calls for Coalition to release IR policy; Change of guard at NSW Teachers Federation; Dispute over pay at University of SA; and Howes on Australian Story.
Australia goes to the polls tomorrow with the major parties closer than ever before on IR but with neither having released detailed IR policies. Workplace Express looks at where the ALP, Coalition and Greens stand.
