FWC President Adam Hatcher will conduct a directions hearing on Friday to consider an SDA bid to lift award junior rates for under-18 workers and abolish them altogether for those 18 and above, with the union arguing that age should not be a criterion for setting pay.
The Federal Circuit and Family Court has rejected a casual TAFE teacher's bid via its small claims jurisdiction to pursue her employer for failing to convert her to permanency, as it slashed her hours in the six months before the first anniversary of her start-date.
Unions NSW says that proposed base pay increases in this week's State budget amount to an "offer that workers and their unions can build on in bargaining" after the scrapping of public sector pay caps.
The NSW Parliament has passed legislation providing an industrial manslaughter offence punishable by jail terms of up to 25 years for individuals and fines for companies of up to $20 million - the largest in Australia - along with new laws extending the State's portable long service leave scheme.
The TWU has begun multi-employer bargaining with aviation ground-handling operators, as unions continue to make use of the Albanese Government's new IR laws.
The first of two AMIEU applications for same-job, same-pay orders to lift the wages of on-hire workers at Australia's largest family-owned, vertically integrated cattle and beef supply chain organisation looks likely to proceed without opposition from the labour supplier.
Misinterpretation of "curt or abrupt" messages between a remote manager and worker and "unhelpful" accusations of "frivolous and vexatious" complaints did not amount to bullying, but the manager might have needed support to better supervise his remote team, the FWC has found.
The Federal public sector has a far lower gender pay gap than the private sector, but women nevertheless earn $19,000 less per year than men, according to a new WGEA report.
The FWC has cancelled its first directions listing to deal with two FAAA "same-job, same-pay" claims on behalf of on-hire cabin crew at Qantas, after the union, the airline and the labour suppliers agreed in advance to a schedule.
Long-serving RTBU NSW branch leader Alex Claassens is set to become national secretary following the resignation of Mark Diamond, whom the organisation credits with "transforming" it and resisting Coalition attempts to thwart the union movement.
