FWC President Adam Hatcher has today outlined a "happy ending" case study that demonstrates the greater level of resources the Commission now applies to bargaining disputes, canvassed some early success from the new post-PABO conciliation process and predicted that multi-employer bargaining law and practice will "develop fairly slowly".
CFMMEU leader Michael Ravbar has been skewered with his second personal penalty in four months for "blatantly" breaching entry rights when delaying work at a major project to promote an industry super fund during unauthorised early morning barbecues.
The FWC will this afternoon hear a RTBU bid to terminate rail freight operator Qube's lockout of train drivers, on the basis that is endangering community safety and welfare.
The FWC has reinforced its view that zombie agreements should not be extended "merely" because the parties are in harmony, observing that nothing is stopping a charity funded by Australia's orchestras from negotiating a new deal with its valued finance manager.
An employer has failed to convince the FWC that a casual 'fragrance brand ambassador' had not yet become an employee when it "withdrew" the role before her first shift.
The FSU says a "fantastic" in-principle deal struck with the ANZ, providing pay rises of up to 16.5% over four years while boosting leave, flexibility and disconnection rights, would not have been possible without the Albanese Government's IR amendments.
Queensland seeking EoIs for IRC appointments; Revived first single interest bid to be decided without hearing; New ballot agent approved; and Woodside industrial action ballot to close in two weeks.
The FWC has reinstated a train driver sacked for kicking and grappling with a stranger on a station concourse while on his way to work, after finding the employer failed to properly weigh his right to defend himself from attack.
The Federal Court will in October consider whether it has reasonable grounds to start an inquiry into a recent AMWU election, at the urging of an organiser who narrowly missed out on replacing the NSW branch's assistant secretary.
Production workers at BHP's in-house labour hire arm, Operations Services, have voted up the company's improved enterprise agreement offer, despite the CFMMEU's mining and energy division opposing it.
