Long-serving ETU national secretary Allen Hicks had decided against recontesting the position and has nominated assistant national secretary Michael Wright as his successor.
In a decision pointing to the circumstances under which zombie deals can survive beyond December's drop-dead date, a four-member FWC bench has extended a 2004 agreement by almost 18 months after accepting it provides "significantly" better pay than the award and that negotiations have already begun for a replacement deal.
An employer has failed to persuade the FWC that a worker resigned immediately after a meeting to review his performance, finding it sacked him after "an unsatisfactory exchange of views conducted in a cursory and excited manner".
The FWC decided this week to terminate rather than suspend industrial action at the Australian Rail Track Authority, because the parties' "entrenched" positions made it "unlikely any significant progress would be made" if it ordered a pause, according to newly-released reasons.
As the Albanese Government prepares to name the members of the its new tripartite National Construction Industry Forum established on July 1, the CFMMEU is calling for the body to concentrate on issues such as security of payments rather than IR.
The FWC has accepted a 48-seconds-late unfair dismissal claim from a worker convinced he filed it just before midnight on the last allowable day, after conceding that the tribunal's online processing quirks might have pushed it beyond the deadline.
BHP is now offering minimum annual pay rises of 4% under an improved four-year enterprise agreement for production workers in its in-house labour hire arm, Operations Services, but the deal continues to be afflicted by "many deficiencies", according to the CFMMEU's mining and energy division.
The FWC has found no justification for interfering with a union's "statutory right" to three working days notice of industrial action against an "essential service" energy provider, after taking into account a five-point "safety commitment" the ETU put forward in response to the employer's concerns about supply continuity.
