The Queensland IRC has rejected a claim that the State health deparment's promotion and interview process indirectly discriminated against neurodivergent people because of systemic barriers that prevented them fully participating, but has suggested it provide further training for selection panels.
At an extraordinary special general meeting today, Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association members have overwhelmingly voted against a planned amalgamation with HACSU, but it might not be enough to stop the merger.
The FWC has confirmed the UWU is entitled to pursue a protected action ballot during the access period for Crown Melbourne's proposed unilateral agreements that the union claims will create a two-tier wage system condemning new workers to lower pay rates, ruling it will enable the union to challenge the deals if voted down.
Victoria's emergency services minister did not engage in unlawful coercive conduct when, in the midst of the FWC hearing a dispute brought by the UFU, she intervened to stop the State's firefighting agency establishing a firefighters' registration board, a full Federal Court majority has ruled today.
Qantas customer service airport workers, head office and call centre staff have voted up a deal delivering "well above" the Flying Kangaroo's wage cap policy, securing at least 5% in the first year alone plus "vital" job security protections, according to the ASU.
Next year will begin with several reviews of Australia's IR laws underway, a packed calendar for major FWC cases and Senate Estimates hearings from early February.
The FWC has refreshed its advice on how it assesses whether an applicant is a "fit and proper person" to hold an entry permit, providing examples of those granted and those refused after recently issuing one to a CFMEU organiser "removed" when the union went into administration.
The Federal Court has rejected Skycity Adelaide casino's bid to dismiss for want of prosecution an employee's claim that it sacked him for whistleblowing, finding it "would have an air of punishment about it".
Following on from its wins at Sydney and Melbourne independent bookstores, RAFFWU is leading strikes and work bans at Berkelouw Books and Harry Hartog, where it says workers remain on a small-cohort 2012 "zombie" agreement that the union says pays "poverty wages" and should never have been approved.
The FWC has announced a first-of-its-kind review of protected action ballot agents approved under Secure Jobs legislation, revealing that one has captured more than a third of the market.
