Barristers will be able to charge up to 43% more for performing government legal work following a 14-year freeze, under new rules that also boost the use of women counsel and seek to encourage agencies to brief more diverse candidates.
Following sustained pressure from disgruntled members, the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association and HACSU have withdrawn their merger plan.
Howard Government Cabinet documents released this month show the Prime Minister's department opposed then Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews' Work Choices proposal two decades ago to remove the FWC from the agreement approval process.
A senior FWC member has found a CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch enterprise agreement team manager, "removed" from her office of divisional delegate, is a fit and proper person to hold office in or be employed by another union and to serve as a bargaining representative.
The FWC has ordered a pharmaceutical company back to negotiations with the UWU for a first enterprise agreement to cover operational employees in non-managerial roles at its Brisbane manufacturing facility, after finding it breached good faith bargaining by offering employees inducements to vote against enterprise talks.
The FWC has extended time for a truck driver to lodge a late unfair dismissal application after finding a newly-engaged TWU member service worker learning on the job lost track of it, while holding responsible the union officials who supervised him.
A full Federal Court has today clarified the meaning of "regulated employees" and quashed the FWC same-job, same-pay orders for Skilled Workforce on-hire employees at the Bengalla and BHP Mt Arthur coal mines, in a ruling that the MEU says might open new loopholes.
A full Federal Court has today upheld a landmark FWC full bench decision granting same-job, same-pay orders once heralded as a "nail in the coffin" for BHP's in-house labour hire model.
Qantas ground-handling employees who had their jobs unlawfully outsourced will receive an initial payment of $3,333 each and a further proportional amount, on top of compensation, Federal Court judge Michael Lee ordered this week.
