The FWC has extended time by 48 days for a Qantas engineer to challenge his sacking after "particularly egregious" errors by the AWU, telling the union it should take immediate steps to ensure officials are equipped to provide a professional level of representation.
The ACTU's 7% pay claim, which it confirmed in a reply submission this week, would merely restore the minimum wage to the 2019 level in real terms, with minimal inflationary effects, according to a new Centre for Future Work report.
The FWC has refused to throw out an allegedly out-of-time adverse action case, ruling a FIFO worker only learned he had been sacked when told he had been left off the list of passengers due to board a plane to the worksite.
In a decision shedding further light on whether workers should be paid if instructed to conduct COVID-19 rapid antigen tests at home or prior to a shift, the FWC has held an aged care agreement lacks any provision to pay staff for testing at a time of their choosing.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has warned the RTBU's Victorian branch and its would-be breakaway locomotive division that they might be in for a long, costly and "very damaging" litigation, amid accusations of inappropriate financial dealings and a hallway assault.
The Albanese Government will increase the minimum wage for visa holders by 30%, from $53,900 to $70,000, to underline that the visa system is a skilled worker program rather than a "guest worker" regime, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said today.
The FWC has reinstituted a CFMMEU official's entry rights after more than five years, accepting that he had put his history of foul-mouthed contraventions behind him since being elected to a leadership role and making "lifestyle" changes to reduce stress.
The FWC has upheld the summary sacking of a "drunk and disorderly" financial advisor who refused to be breath-tested after turning up to work with bloodshot eyes and smelling of alcohol.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a firefighter who shared an image of naked women in a "sickos" Facebook group of current and former colleagues but upheld the sacking of another who posted p-rnography during his shift, in decisions slamming "tick-and-flick" training.
