Microsoft says an Australian-first framework agreement with the ACTU sets a new standard for "responsible AI diffusion" across workplaces, protecting those working on AI and affected by it, while prioritising training for unions and employees.
A four-member FWC full bench has made a new same-job, same-pay order covering only the Skilled Workforce labour-hire employee classifications that currently work at a Hunter Valley coal mine, following a full Federal Court finding that the tribunal's original orders had been too broad.
The FWC has refused to stay a single interest bargaining authorisation for six Chemist Warehouse franchisees while an appeal is underway, because it could "derail" negotiations for several months, when the permit only stands for a year.
The FWC is proposing to quickly insert a far broader delegates' rights term in modern awards, following a full Federal Court decision to quash the Commission's previous "impermissibly confined" term.
Barristers will be able to charge up to 43% more for performing government legal work following a 14-year freeze, under new rules that also boost the use of women counsel and seek to encourage agencies to brief more diverse candidates.
Following sustained pressure from disgruntled members, the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and HACSU have withdrawn their merger plan.
Howard Government Cabinet documents released this month show the Prime Minister's department opposed then Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' Work Choices proposal two decades ago to remove the FWC from the agreement approval process.
A senior FWC member has found a CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch enterprise agreement team manager, "removed" from her office of divisional delegate, is a fit and proper person to hold office in or be employed by another union and to serve as a bargaining representative.
The FWC has ordered a pharmaceutical company back to negotiations with the UWU for a first enterprise agreement to cover operational employees in non-managerial roles at its Brisbane manufacturing facility, after finding it breached good faith bargaining by offering employees inducements to vote against enterprise talks.
