A tribunal has pilloried a government department's efforts to fill a vacancy after observing that a senior nurse encouraged to apply had the role plucked away from her following the "catastrophic collision" of three internal processes.
The Albanese Government is likely to have greater scope to push through its pre-election IR promises and any further reforms after its thumping win on Saturday delivered a majority in the lower house and an upper house in which it might share the balance of power solely with the Greens.
"Offboarding" a worker and processing her "final pay" before she went on holiday did not amount to a termination of employment, the FWC has ruled, because although the term "superficially" indicates dismissal, the worker failed to consider the circumstances of her labour-hire arrangement.
In further fruits from efforts to organise in the Pilbara, workers at two power stations will gain a 4.3% to 12.6% pay uplift and better conditions under their first union deal.
The HSU's Victorian No 1 branch will enter full administration and secretary Diana Asmar will leave her job, under in an in-principle agreement reached with the union's national executive, which it expects the Federal Court to approve on Monday.
The FWC has rejected an individual bargaining representative's bid for an intractable bargaining declaration after finding negotiations with a major transport operator have merely "stalled" and are not yet at a stalemate.
A pregnant lawyer who filed her adverse action application before her dismissal took effect will get a chance to pursue her claim, after the FWC waived the "irregularity" to save both parties the cost and time involved in dealing with a fresh application that would have been filed late.
The Coalition will achieve its 41,000 reduction in the APS workforce over five years and save $17 billion over the first four, its election costings reveal, but has backtracked on its insistence that the cuts will be confined to Canberra.
Surging demand to join the early childhood education supported bargaining agreement and access its substantial pay increases has spurred the FWC to tailor a more efficient process for handling the "large volume" of applications.
Queensland's Industrial Court has upheld a finding that an investigator's report and a lawyer's advice on a senior Office of IR employee's conduct attracted legal professional privilege and the employer did not waive it.
