The FSU says it will fight a Macquarie Bank bid to carve-out award conditions such as overtime, penalty rates and leave loading for thousands of its specialists and managers on the basis that they inhibit flexible working practices that flourished during the pandemic.
Qantas lifts pay cap as cabin crew prepare for industrial action; NZ FPA Bill to get "backstop" provision; and Gender-equal paid parental leave entitlements in NSW.
The ACTU has told a parliamentary inquiry that flexibility requests under the Fair Work Act are too easily rebuffed by employers, while major affiliate the ANMF is calling for a positive duty for employers to make reasonable adjustments, as ACCI maintains the provision is working effectively.
The ACTU's executive has passed a resolution today calling for greater protection of workers' data, which will extend to gaining enforceable rights through collective bargaining, after the release of large companies' employee information.
A court has tossed out a former accountant's novel claim that Bunnings' decision to dismiss him after discovering he had s-xually harassed a supervisor at a different job more than a decade earlier amounted to discrimination on the basis of "social origin".
The NSW IRC is letting the IEU intervene in a State Government award application for public school teachers and make submissions alongside the NSW Teachers Federation, as the union pledges to leave "no doubt" it will reject locked-in low pay rises in Catholic schools.
The FWC has resisted union objections to approval of a coal mining deal, accepting an undertaking that the employer would convert a "significant majority" of casual workers to full-time if it wins a tender at a BHP subsidiary.
RAFFWU members employed in Apple's retail stores are preparing to take protected action next week in the form of work bans and one-hour stoppages as the union holds out for "a much better offer".
The FWC has refused to issue interim orders stopping Yarra Trams from introducing an overhauled rostering system that was months in the making and designed to accommodate the Spring Racing Carnival, while complying with stricter fatigue management rules.
