Australia’s largest family-owned office supplies company unfairly sacked an account manager when it claimed she repudiated her contract by refusing to get a COVID-19 jab, the FWC has found.
A new FWC presidential member whose father once headed the NSW IRC has paid tribute to the "courage" of care workers and domestic violence victims whose deeply personal stories helped drive substantial changes to pay rates and leave entitlements through the Commission.
The RTBU and ASU will today test whether employers can make deals directly with their employees after the termination of protected action to bypass the subsequent 21 days of negotiations and avoid the ensuing arbitration of an agreement.
The Government should boost parental leave payments to a replacement wage, and create a positive duty to "reasonably accomodate" pregnant workers and workers with family responsibilities, according to the women's economic equality taskforce final report, released today.
The Closing Loopholes Bill's proposed casual employment definition is "uncertain" and might make the risk of maintaining a casual workforce "simply too high", leading employer-clientele silk Stuart Wood has told the the BCA in advice commissioned before its appearance at the inquiry into the legislation, while the peak body has also revealed the cost of its pro-casual advertising campaign.
A court has refused to grant a self-represented on-hire worker a second extension of time to pursue his "confusing" adverse action case, finding too many gaps in his explanation for a 10-week delay during which he badgered the FWC to arbitrate the matter and travelled overseas.
Members of a "non-partisan" rank-and-file ticket challenging the CPSU's leadership team claim it pulled the trigger too late on APS protected action and wasted time stage-managing dissent, but incumbent secretary Melissa Donnelly says the union is on "a trajectory of success" with the strongest growth in decades.
A construction company's failure to provide workers with a proposed agreement updated to reflect negotiated changes such as a reduced pay rise at least seven clear days before a vote, along with a new explanation, has undone its bid for FWC approval.
Digital platform DoorDash has aired its concerns that the Closing Loopholes Bill gives "unprecedented power" to the FWC, "a body which has previously only ever dealt with employment", without requiring it to consult on-demand economy experts, while Didi and Uber are also seeking changes to the FWC's proposed enlarged ambit.
The FWC has rejected the Victorian Locomotive Division's bid to demerge from the RTBU, just weeks after it issued a plea to a Senate inquiry to block a Closing Loopholes provision aimed at shutting the door on such disamalgamations.
