A new FWC member has credited his mother-of-seven's "second-to-none" conciliation and mediation skills for his early-age lessons in conflict resolution, while a second new recruit has expressed his appreciation for his parents giving him every chance in life, lamenting that he "probably didn't take many of them".
In the latest of a rash of significant rulings on protected action ballots, the FWC's national practice leader for bargaining has insisted a bus company provide employee details despite its "uncommon concession" to rely on a union's database alone to develop a roll of voters.
The Albanese Government's appointment to the FWC of more than a dozen new members, mostly from union or union-friendly backgrounds, as part of it promise to "rebalance" the institution, still has a way to go, DEWR data has confirmed.
Unions have won an upfront 8.6% pay rise for offshore drill workers, ahead of an important vote on Chevron’s proposed Wheatstone LNG platform non-union deal, which they have strongly opposed.
In submissions opposing a Virgin subsidiary's bid for an intractable bargaining declaration, the ALAEA says it will neither support nor oppose the airline's latest offer if put to a vote and they are only apart on a request to lift a cap on redundancy payouts from 20 to 52 weeks.
A labour hire company that sought to convince a FWC full bench to grant a four-year extension to its 2007 zombie deal due to the pressures of the pandemic and economic conditions, including its workers' "wage demands", has won just an extra seven months.
A FWC full bench has acknowledged a railway station manager's "ambitious" claim that a member went "wholly outside" the available options when she upheld his sacking for failing to disclose serious criminal charges.
The FWO is prosecuting franchisor Bakers Delight for failing to prevent its franchisees from underpaying workers, after the head office discovered the wage theft and failed to address it.
A court has ordered an employer to pay more than $200,000 in compensation and penalties for its "deliberate" sacking of two delegates, finding that the dismissals signalled to other employees that engaging with unions could have "serious consequences".
