A judge who rejected a SDA bid to prioritise its breaks case against McDonald's by staying an earlier RAFFWU-backed class action has contrasted the "lacklustre and misdirected approach" of the country's second-largest union with that of the unregistered, seven-year-old union and its lawyers.
Union members employed by Chevron have endorsed draft enterprise agreements covering three major gas projects and agreed to suspend planned industrial action due to resume tomorrow.
Sydney Water is facing potential industrial action as early as tomorrow, with unions this morning expected to tell the FWC that members have rejected the tribunal's recommended deal to settle their bargaining dispute.
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Conservative former business executive Christopher Luxon is set to become New Zealand's next prime minister on a policy platform that includes abolishing the country's system of Fair Pay Agreements for low-paid workers within the new administration's first 100 days.
A full Federal Court has overturned orders for a big company to compensate a former employee for a "sham" redundancy, finding a judge wrongly ruled on the necessity of a business restructure.
The FWC has granted a company's request to transfer its workers from a suspected sham deal for a labour hire company, identified in last month's Appeal by The Australian Worker’s Union decision, to a union agreement, in advance of the Closing Loopholes Bill's proposed changes.
The FWC has upheld a parcel courier company's sacking of a despatcher for accepting bribes of scotch whisky and construction work from truck drivers in exchange for favourable job allocations.
The FWC has welcomed a new presidential member whose family connections to workplace tribunals date back more than a century and who described her own recent involvement in the Commission's continuing aged care work value case as "an incredible way to finish a legal career".
Chevron is accusing unions of ignoring a FWC recommendation to halt industrial action set to begin on Thursday while negotiations continue today before Commissioner Bernie Riordan to iron out differences that emerged after the parties reached a settlement on September 22.
