The FWC has extended time for a truck driver to lodge a late unfair dismissal application after finding a newly-engaged TWU member service worker learning on the job lost track of it, while holding responsible the union officials who supervised him.
A full Federal Court has today clarified the meaning of "regulated employees" and quashed the FWC same-job, same-pay orders for Skilled Workforce on-hire employees at the Bengalla and BHP Mt Arthur coal mines, in a ruling that the MEU says might open new loopholes.
A full Federal Court has today upheld a landmark FWC full bench decision granting same-job, same-pay orders once heralded as a "nail in the coffin" for BHP's in-house labour hire model.
Qantas ground-handling employees who had their jobs unlawfully outsourced will receive an initial payment of $3,333 each and a further proportional amount, on top of compensation, Federal Court judge Michael Lee ordered this week.
Shiftworkers at Transport for NSW's 24/7 Transport Management Centre will enjoy a 350% pay rate on public holidays after a tribunal accepted the RTBU's interpretation of the governing award.
Josh Cullinan has stepped-down as RAFFWU secretary and has shifted into a new strategic litigation role, replaced by a former delegate turned industrial officer, who led the Better Read than Dead bargaining campaign, and is taking up his position alongside a new president and vice-president.
The FWC has voiced concerns over an employer's questioning of meatworkers who signed a petition in support of bargaining and its claims that the AMIEU "coerced" them to do so when they did not understand what it meant.
The Federal Court has dismissed an adverse action claim by the former Victorian manager for listed software company Technology One, in which he initially won a now overturned $5 million payout, and sought nearly $55 million on retrial.
Loopholes review seeking submissions; IR academics conference to ponder AI/work intersection; Law conference features "great debate" on IR; and AI survey warns of "preventable crisis".
A FWC expert panel is inviting parties to the SCHADS award gender undervaluation case to tell it at a hearing tomorrow what they think of a possible new classification structure thrashed out in a series of conferences, as an alternative to the panel's provisionally-floated model, and to weigh in on multiple issues in dispute.
