A leading IR lawyer says the Albanese Government's third tranche casuals provisions are a win for employers as they will provide "considerable certainty", but he predicts an ambiguous independent contracting test will produce "windfall gains and windfall losses".
The TWU has called for the new Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson to expedite compensation for about 1700 sacked workers after the High Court today found its actions unlawful.
The High Court has today unanimously held that Qantas took unlawful adverse action against nearly 2000 former ground crew when it outsourced their jobs at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when their agreements were due to nominally expire.
FWC President Adam Hatcher today timetabled Chevron's applications for three intractable bargaining declarations at its Western Australian LNG operations, setting down a full bench hearing hearing from September 22, while also directing the company to resume mediation.
The Fair Work Act's continuing focus on single-enterprise bargaining, along with weak underpinning awards and supported bargaining's restriction to multi-employer rather than sector-wide bargaining, will limit the new stream's capacity to achieve "decent wages" for low-paid female employees, according to leading IR academics.
The FWC has rejected a non-union deal, filed by a subsidiary of Chris Ellison's ASX-listed mining company, highlighting evidence that "strongly, if not emphatically" suggests a third entity is in fact the employer of those who voted it up.
Mandating equality bargaining and creating an enforceable positive gender equality duty could improve workplace gender equality, academics say in a new article in the Journal of IR.
A court has criticised the FWO's "unacceptable" conduct that left it "to guess" at a penalty hearing whether corrective action had already been taken, after it emerged that the watchdog's inspector failed to check.
