The UWU says that a rare strike by farm workers has won a "same job, same pay" pledge from a Victoria grower of baby leaf salads for Aldi, Coles and export markets.
After moving quickly to become the first union to seek a single interest multi-employer bargaining authorisation under the Albanese Government's Secure Jobs legislation, the IEU's WA branch has quietly withdrawn its application.
NSW PSA members have accepted by an 80% margin the Minns State Government's offer of a 4% pay rise plus a 0.5% superannuation boost, to take effect from tomorrow.
In the first test of Secure Jobs zombie-slayer provisions, a FWC full bench has refused to delay the automatic axing of a scaffolding company's 14-year-old deal after establishing that, contrary to the employer's claims, many of its workers will be better off under the award.
ETU Victoria branch secretary Troy Gray has today warned that his members will walk off major infrastructure projects if the Andrews Labor Government bans duck shooting.
A CFMMEU organiser ordered to pay $10,000 out of his own pocket for entry breaches has avoided having his permit withdrawn after the FWC found that doing so would be "punitive and nothing more".
Individual age discrimination complaints have "fundamental limitations for achieving systemic change" and should be supported by other regulatory tools, greater transparency and collective action, an academic says.
The FWC has found that a company's failure to meet modern IR standards, including its HR manager's attempt to "retrospectively" dismiss a security investigator, provided the necessary exceptional circumstances to accept her late unfair dismissal application.
