The Australian Education Union told the FWC this afternoon that its revised application for a multi-employer bargaining authorisation for 12 TAFE institutes in Victoria might assuage employer concerns.
The FWC has extended time for a worker who attended the Commission twice to try to submit his unfair dismissal application in person, but because of his "poor" handwriting, tribunal staff encouraged him to lodge online.
The FWC boasts a case clearance rate above 100% while dealing with legislative changes which amount to a "generational shift" in the administration of IR, according to the tribunal's annual report.
A judge who rejected a SDA bid to prioritise its breaks case against McDonald's by staying an earlier RAFFWU-backed class action has contrasted the "lacklustre and misdirected approach" of the country's second-largest union with that of the unregistered, seven-year-old union and its lawyers.
Union members employed by Chevron have endorsed draft enterprise agreements covering three major gas projects and agreed to suspend planned industrial action due to resume tomorrow.
Sydney Water is facing potential industrial action as early as tomorrow, with unions this morning expected to tell the FWC that members have rejected the tribunal's recommended deal to settle their bargaining dispute.
Qantas appoints chief people executive after restructure; NSW barristers Darams and Meehan take silk; CFMMEU considering High Court challenge to Quirk ruling; FWC translates information into 28 community languages; Escape underpayment by switching jobs, says UK research; and New UK right to request predictable hours.
Conservative former business executive Christopher Luxon is set to become New Zealand's next prime minister on a policy platform that includes abolishing the country's system of Fair Pay Agreements for low-paid workers within the new administration's first 100 days.
A full Federal Court has overturned orders for a big company to compensate a former employee for a "sham" redundancy, finding a judge wrongly ruled on the necessity of a business restructure.
