Telstra has defended a 1.5% a year pay offer, expressing disappointment as CEPU members vote on whether to take industrial action that includes bans on emergency work and essential customer servicing and an "unlimited number" of stop-works of "indefinite duration".
Thousands of retail and hospitality workers sitting on lower-paying "zombie" deals will revert to their respective awards from early March after the FWC terminated a 2007 agreement for Justin Hemmes' Merivale hospitality company and a 2011 Specialty Fashion Group deal.
The FWC earlier this month halted industrial action at BP's Kwinana oil refinery after it accepted that a shutdown of up to a fortnight would be the "unavoidable and inevitable consequence" of protected bans and limitations by AWU members.
The owner of a Sydney martial arts gym will have another chance to defend his dismissal of an instructor after an FWC bench found a member wrongly rejected damning CCTV footage that had been obtained illegally.
Queensland employers will have to pay a substantially higher base salary for newly-hired HR and IR managers, according to a remuneration survey released today.
An FWC full bench has issued guidance for the approval of enterprise agreements containing minor errors, finding that employers can give as little as four days' notice of voting and alter the text on template forms as long as workers are not disadvantaged.
Instability set to continue as O'Dwyer reveals retirement plans; FWC to hear Aldi loaded rates case in April; and Worker with disabilities challenges wage assessment tool.
An FWC full bench has confirmed that a major employer is obliged under its agreement to maintain a subsidised canteen service, overturning a ruling that it didn't pertain to the employment relationship.
A full bench has allowed an employee to challenge his dismissal for refusing to use his employer's fingerprint scanning technology that monitored attendance and tracked shifts, finding the case raises "important, novel and emerging issues".
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman's former head of HR has launched legal action against the watchdog, alleging its executive bullied and "stonewalled" the HR team and dismissed her for complaining about it.
