A court has refused to grant a self-represented on-hire worker a second extension of time to pursue his "confusing" adverse action case, finding too many gaps in his explanation for a 10-week delay during which he badgered the FWC to arbitrate the matter and travelled overseas.
Members of a "non-partisan" rank-and-file ticket challenging the CPSU's leadership team claim it pulled the trigger too late on APS protected action and wasted time stage-managing dissent, but incumbent secretary Melissa Donnelly says the union is on "a trajectory of success" with the strongest growth in decades.
A construction company's failure to provide workers with a proposed agreement updated to reflect negotiated changes such as a reduced pay rise at least seven clear days before a vote, along with a new explanation, has undone its bid for FWC approval.
Digital platform DoorDash has aired its concerns that the Closing Loopholes Bill gives "unprecedented power" to the FWC, "a body which has previously only ever dealt with employment", without requiring it to consult on-demand economy experts, while Didi and Uber are also seeking changes to the FWC's proposed enlarged ambit.
The FWC has rejected the Victorian Locomotive Division's bid to demerge from the RTBU, just weeks after it issued a plea to a Senate inquiry to block a Closing Loopholes provision aimed at shutting the door on such disamalgamations.
BHP has accused the Albanese Government of "blatantly" seeking to undermine the FWC's independent decision-making by declaring the company's Operations Services internal labour hire arm a key target of the Closing Loopholes legislation.
The Nobel Prize for economic sciences has been awarded to a Harvard professor who has a penchant for historical detective work, digging into gender differences in labour markets that stretch back to the eighteenth century.
The FWC has ordered a car dealer to a pay its former apprentice mechanic three weeks compensation, after it summarily dismissed him for causing the business "reputational harm" when he failed to check a car's brake pads and lied about his error.
The FWC's first intractable bargaining declaration looks set to referred tomorrow for arbitration following a fortnight of further negotiations between the UFU's Victorian branch and Fire Rescue Victoria.
Employment and IR specialists Matthew Follett and John (Jack) Tracey are among 25 barristers promoted to the ranks of senior counsel in Victoria yesterday.
