An employer is not obliged to offer voluntary redundancies to workers who it will place in similar roles at the same pay when it reconfigures its product lines.
A class action lawsuit accusing Domino's Pizza of misleading and deceptive conduct alleges that it caused franchise operators to underpay thousands of "award workers" under old, substandard agreements that could not apply.
A Victorian magistrate has today expressed concern at the "misogynistic language" used in texts sent by CFMMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka.
An FWC full bench has clarified when non-bargaining representatives opposing agreement approvals have a right to be heard, clearing the way for the CFMMEU to test whether a wrongly-declared representative is incapable of being covered by a deal.
The CPSU has failed in its bid to claw back allowances in full for border protection employees who went on a series of strikes over a three year period.
A worker's tardy pursuit of claimed underpayments under an old agreement has failed, the FWC agreeing with the employer that it lacked jurisdiction once a new deal was approved.
ACTU leader Sally McManus has written to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, asking him to implement a three-point plan that would lift aggregate annual wage growth from the current level of about 2.3% to about 3.5%.
A large employer has for the second time in a year successfully argued that disposition of a matter before the FWC would be best served by it being permitted to engage an external lawyer to argue against a self-represented worker, given its admitted lack of expertise in IR matters.
