Electricity industry employers are seeking a review of an ETU-negotiated agreement clause requiring non-members to pay $1500 a year for a course to access a $7000 productivity allowance, while the MBA says the union should consider whether it is breaching freedom of association and corrupting benefits laws.
Protecting Worker Entitlements Act receives Royal Assent; Wooden stepping down from HILDA; Federal safety scheme review discussion paper; Internal reform for UK peak employer body; FWC animations to boost understanding of unfair dismissal regime; ILO Fiji director job up for grabs; and UK tribunal finds critique of gender-critical beliefs is harassment.
A court has refused to grant an interlocutory injunction restraining a lawyer from working in a large regional area while his former firm seeks to enforce a contractual two-year ban, instead accepting an undertaking after observing the legal practice did not have a strong case.
The FWC has outlined its "interim" strategy for regulating registered organisations while it awaits the result of a review of functions it inherited as part of the Albanese Government's Secure Jobs legislation.
A CFMMEU organiser has been granted an entry permit despite a lengthy history of convictions for alcohol-related offences, the FWC in part reasoning that because none occurred in workplace settings he met the definition of a fit and proper person.
New DEWR data shows that bargained private sector wages grew at 3.9% a year in the March quarter - the fastest rate of increase in more than a decade, but still a long way behind inflation.
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bargaining authorisation under the Albanese Government's Secure Jobs legislation, the IEU's WA branch has quietly withdrawn its application.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.
