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.
The FWC has extended time for a Virgin Australia employee's seven-minutes-late general protections claim after accepting that her "emotionally abusive" domestic relationship that made her "a prisoner in her own home" constituted an exceptional circumstance.
After reaching what it describes as the "most significant" retail deal in the country with one bookstore, RAFFWU has won a protected action ballot order at another book outlet accused by the union of reneging on a commitment to lift proposed wage rates by 4.6% this year.
A "tiny proportion" of applications to terminate enterprise agreements are opposed by unions or any other party, which suggests concerns about the provisions are overblown, according to new research by veteran IR lawyer and policy advisor Steve Smith.
