United Voice and NUW members will next month begin voting on the unions' proposed merger to form the United Workers' Union, after the FWC today approved a ballot.
An FWC full bench has confirmed that redeterminations require the tribunal to contemplate matters afresh, quashing a senior member's orders that would have allowed her to consider just three specified issues and limit evidence in revisiting Alcoa's bid to bin its WA deal.
The FWC has held that a lawyer's incorrect use of a date calculator should not stand in the way of a worker filing a day-late challenge to his alleged dismissal on the basis that his employment was "frustrated" by an expected slow return to full-time work from sick leave.
Uber's business model in Australia has survived another round of regulatory scrutiny, the FWO deciding not to take compliance action after determining that its drivers are not employees.
A "recidivist" CFMMEU official who on two occasions last year avoided having personal payment orders made against him was today penalised $22,000 for telling a site manager to "get f**ked" when asked for his "notice", before climbing on an operating crane.
A public servant has failed to convince the FWC to let her to amend her bullying application to include the Australian Public Service Commissioner, alleging he dealt with her complaints against the head of a financial security agency in a "grossly unfair manner" and made "vexatious allegations".
Rugby union player Israel Folau has lodged an unlawful termination application with the FWC over his dismissal last month for posting on Instagram that "hell awaits" homosexuals, drunks and atheists.
United Voice and the NUW are a step closer to conducting a member ballot on whether to merge to become Australia's biggest blue-collar union, with the FWC this week issuing a community of interest declaration acknowledging their shared industrial interests.
The FWC has refused to terminate a decade-old agreement after hearing a construction company's workers did not know it existed and observing that there was "no evidence whatsoever" about the individual employment arrangements now in place.
