The Federal Court has applied the "precautionary principle" in accepting the FWO's view on the process for calculating underpayments for 19,000 salaried Woolworths employees, while it has also indicated that jointly managing the matter with a similar Coles case "would be useful".
Maritime unions have turned to a former senior FWC member in an effort to secure a new deal with the country's biggest tug operator after two years of fruitless negotiations.
A major security company accused by the UWU of sending misleading messages during voting for a new agreement and trying to coerce workers into supporting it has since withdrawn its approval application and will conduct a new ballot.
A university can proceed with plans to publish the results of student feedback on its courses after it overturned a FWC decision that upheld union concerns that the academics delivering them could be identified.
Newly-retired FWC deputy president Reg Hamilton has proposed that the tribunal pre-approve agreements and explain their effect so workers have "rolled gold" deals to vote on, while he is also urging joint action to repair the "dying" bargaining system.
The Federal Court has today reserved judgment on key threshold issues for the Fair Work Ombudsman's landmark prosecution of Woolworths, the largest of the regulator's underpayment cases against major employers.
An "excellent" expert's assessment that tugboat masters' planned protected action could cost the economy hundreds of millions has proved instrumental in convincing the FWC to suspend nationwide strikes.
Victoria's wage inspectorate is prosecuting a company that makes digital learning programs for young children for 48 breaches of the State's child employment laws when it allegedly engaged 23 minors under 15 without obtaining mandatory permits.
