A FWC full bench has this afternoon reserved its decision on whether to approve Apple Australia's enterprise agreement, after hearing objections from RAFFWU.
The FWC's decision today to deregister the Queensland-based Bacon Factories Union is the "harbinger of doom" for small employee organisations, according to rules specialist John Payne, principal of Hall Payne Lawyers.
A FWC member incorrectly apportioned the burden of proof and applied the wrong test for "reasonable" self-defence in ordering reinstatement of a train driver sacked after fighting with a stranger on a station concourse, a full bench has found.
The FWC might refer a "regrettable, expensive and damaging episode" to the South Australian Correctional Services Department, after it failed to allow a worker on remand to contact his employer, and the employer dismissed him for failing to attend work.
Higher job mobility and labour hoarding might weigh on short-term labour productivity growth, but could also boost it in the long-term, the RBA says in new research.
In the wake of Chevron and unions backing a FWC recommendation to resolve their bargaining dispute, a FWC full bench has today temporarily adjourned the company's intractable bargaining declaration application, but has left the door open for unions to file a strike-out motion.
Offshore Alliance and ETU members have backed the Chevron peace deal brokered by FWC mediator Bernie Riordan, after the company's surprise acceptance of the deal last night.
The bargaining dispute between Chevron and unions remains "on the precipice" after the company last night accepted FWC mediator Bernie Riordan's proposed peace deal and unions said members were "carefully considering" the proposal, ahead of a deadline at 9am eastern time and the tribunal hearing the resources giant's IBD application from 10am.
A FWC full bench has confirmed that it can only approve enterprise agreements that include rates of pay, because their absence prevents it determining whether the deal passes the BOOT.
The chair of the ACTU's price gouging inquiry, former ACCC chair Alan Fels, has told a public hearing this is a "missing piece" in Australia's inflation story and there is a lot of resistance to the message that it is being driven by "prices themselves", while the Australia Institute says corporate profits must fall.
