Ahead of a 10-day full bench hearing of a bid to significantly shake-up the retail award, the ACTU has hit out at employers backing measures to "buy-out" core conditions for workers on as little as $53,680 a year, ditch "smokos" and introduce split shifts.
The Federal Court has slapped a five-year suppression order on a Channel Seven producer's general protections claim, settled on the basis that details would be kept confidential.
A FWC full bench has rejected a coal mining company's bid to limit same-job, same-pay orders to on-hire workers performing weekday rosters permitted under the host's enterprise agreement, and to exclude those on weekend rosters.
The FWC has issued an entry permit to a NTEU organiser and Newcastle Council Greens councillor after weighing her arrest for offences while participating in a climate protest.
The FWC has swiftly signed off on 20,000 more early childhood education and care workers being added to a landmark multi-employer supported bargaining agreement that accesses a 15% pay rise over two years, while offering pointers to smooth the way for sectoral participants expected to follow suit.
A large childcare operator has been ordered to pay more than $8000 compensation to a sacked worker falsely accused of telling a parent about her tenuous visa status in supposed breach of a company policy found by the FWC to impose no constraint on such interactions.
A former organiser who claims the UWU sacked her for exacerbating post-amalgamation "tensions" by pushing for a staff agreement has won a three-month extension to file her second unfair dismissal application, after a full bench found her first one barred as she lodged it while pursuing an adverse action case.
The Closing Loopholes legislation and its transitional provisions do not require the FWC to consider whether it should insert more favourable delegates' rights terms in an underlying award when it is varying an agreement, the FWC has ruled.
The FWC has awarded $20,000 to an on-hire mineworker sacked after testing positive for anti-depressants, finding that more consideration should have been given to his "genuine misunderstanding" of the host's new drug policy.
