Gig platforms must use "human representatives" rather than AI when assessing a regulated worker's response to threatened deactivation, under a much-anticipated new code published by the Albanese Government last week.
The FWC has refused to approve a Subway franchisee's proposed deal designed to replace a zombie agreement, finding it not genuinely agreed because the employer failed to adequately explain which allowances would be absorbed into the rate of pay, and that penalty and minimum rates would freeze for the life of the agreement.
The FWC has ordered the UWU to stop "unlawful picketing" that is blocking access to four distribution centres that supply Woolworths, finding it has undermined the union's good faith bargaining obligations.
The FWC has declined to halt a ballot for a proposed agreement, finding a waste management company did not breach good faith bargaining obligations by allegedly "blindsiding" the TWU when it unilaterally put the deal to its workforce.
Secure Jobs, Better Pay Act amendments that abolished "work-arounds" allowing employers to dodge genuine bargaining have been instrumental in workers winning fair wage increases, the MEU has told the review of the legislation.
The Federal Court has criticised Shine Lawyers' "excessive" legal fees and "Rolls Royce" registration process while approving a settlement in a WA stolen wages class action set to leave group members with as little as $10,000 each.
The ETU is pursuing the MBA's NSW branch over what the union claims were misrepresentations about potential huge penalties against anyone involved in a rally protesting the federal government's decision to put the CFMEU's construction division into administration.
An engineer who lost a close relative in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict was clearly offended when a manager directed him to move his desk into a project "war room", but his refusal still provided a valid reason for his dismissal, the FWC has found.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has today started investigating whether a sacked CFMEU construction and general division NSW branch official breached the administration's anti-avoidance laws when he allegedly "improperly" gained remote access to CCTV cameras in a union office, while he also launched an inquiry into the MBAV.
The FAAA's bid to expunge inferior rates of pay for labour hire cabin crew placed at Jetstar looks likely to be arbitrated in April, after the union raised concerns that the airline's settlement proposal might amount to unlawful avoidance of the Fair Work Act's same-job, same-pay provisions.
