A Federal Court judge has moved swiftly to shut down a legal representative for 18 airline workers seeking damages for COVID-19 vaccination-related sackings after he sent "obscene [and] threatening" emails to the defendants' lawyers and in-house IR teams.
The UFU's Victorian branch is pushing the Andrews Government to raise firefighters' pay by 20.9% over three years - plus 5% backpay - which it says is justified by skyrocketing inflation and substantial productivity improvements.
The FWC has opened the way for MSS Security workers stationed around three Pilbara Ports Authority sites to start bargaining for a new deal, despite the employer's claims that any pay increases could stymie its ability to renew a soon-to-expire contract.
A CFMMEU organiser who engaged in threatening and coercive conduct, including stopping a concrete pour, has failed to convince the FWC to renew his entry permit, despite presenting evidence that he had recently completed training on the error of his ways.
The FWC has taken Woolworths to task over the retailer's haphazard roll-out of a national initiative aimed at improving its self-serve checkout areas, expressing shock that anti-fatigue matting for employees had vanished from stores "overnight" after a Commission hearing into a dispute over their removal at a Queensland outlet.
The FWC has rejected a glass manufacturer's claims that it accidentally halved rest breaks in a proposed deal, dismissing the employer's approval application because it failed to adequately explain it and other deficient clauses to the workers who voted for it.
As the FWC prepares to officially launch its real-time data on wage rises in agreements filed for approval, it says deals lodged in the second half of July paid an average increase of 3%.
The FWC has agreed to terminate a transnational CSL subsidiary's agreement, clearing the way for it to move senior employees onto a "global remuneration model", after accepting that it "meaningfully" consulted its workforce about the implications.
A four-member FWC full bench has upheld a finding that a National Rugby League referee could not pursue his dismissal dispute because his engagement under an "outer limits" contract meant his employment had not been terminated.
