More than 90% of Crown Resorts' 8400 casino workers in Melbourne and Perth casinos have won a 5% wage rise under a series of new one-year enterprise agreements approved recently by the FWC that also deliver a return to weekend penalty rates for Melbourne employees.
TPG Telecom says it used a legal documents designer and best-practice inclusivity guidelines to create an engaging, accessible post-merger deal with "amazing" conditions, but the CEPU's communications division says it delivers a pay cut and unfairly shifts the goalposts on penalty rates.
The Albanese Government has asked the ACCC and Treasury for advice on the effects of non-compete clauses in employment contracts and any action warranted in response.
An employer's failed bid to confirm whether UWU organisers can enter the independent living homes of people with disabilities illustrates the difficulty the FWC must sometimes face in grappling with the separation of powers, according to a leading labour law expert.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a construction worker sacked on the basis of a clutch of "confected" claims that included alleged commuting challenges after losing his driver's licence and his purported concealment of firearms and pornography charges.
FIFO work is not "other acceptable employment" for retrenched city-based workers accustomed to returning home to their families each night, the FWC has ruled.
Energy giant Woodside has again failed to halt union efforts to force it to the bargaining table for the first time in three decades, after a FWC full bench today upheld a majority support determination for its offshore platform employees.
The Australian Higher Education Industrial Association says it is doing its job by developing a roadmap for securing fast rollover agreements to avoid universities being "roped in" to multi-employer deals.
The Albanese Government's first tranche of IR legislation for 2023 will seek to reinforce the FWC's powers to review and vary default superannuation fund terms in modern awards, an area where the tribunal has previously been constrained by a 2014 court decision.
