The FWC has speculated that a government business enterprise reviewing a stood-down employee's performance deliberately dragged its feet in the hope he would resign.
The peak NSW union body is calling ahead of next week's jobs summit for the Albanese Government to adopt bargaining fees, outlaw unpaid overtime for workers earning less than $162,000 and simplify migration rules by imposing a single requirement to pay overseas workers a 30% premium.
Unions are accusing Apple of trying to ram through a deal that could have employees working up to 60 hours a week without overtime, with the ASU and the SDA calling for more time to consult and RAFFWU seeking 5% a year and to claw back alleged underpayments.
The McGowan Labor Government's newly-announced plans to overhaul WA's equal opportunity laws will encompass removing an impediment to female FIFO workers making complaints about s-xual harassment.
An employer has been given a final chance to respond without compulsion to concerns about a recently-approved deal, after a FWC bench dismissed an "unusual" application for it to recuse itself over perceived bias.
The FWC has promised today to provide "real-time" data on bargained pay rises, with plans to issue fortnightly reports on wage movements in enterprise agreement approval applications, with the first "proposed report" showing a 3.2% average annualised rise in the first two weeks of July, well ahead of the last official departmental number for the March quarter of 2.7%.
Westpac is holding out a $1000 incentive to encourage employees to vote up its proposed agreement that promises a 4% rise in January for employees earning less than $95,000, when inflation is forecast to reach almost 8%, but the FSU says it should be increasing its base pay offer as the union pursues a 6% boost.
A court has found that a union's head office is prevented by its own rules from hearing accusations of "gross misbehaviour" brought against a State divisional leader.
The FWC has thrown out the agreement termination bid of a language school that likely gave teachers incorrect and misleading information on the pros and cons of ditching the deal, including that they would get "more cash in hand" and "more shifts".
Unions are calling for the Albanese Government to establish a tripartite Energy Transition Authority to manage the shift from fossil fuels to renewables and ensure workers are not left out in the cold, in the latest issues paper the ACTU has released ahead of next month's jobs and skiills summit.
