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Bid to cut severance pay not "industrial fair play"

The FWC has chastised an employer for failing to abide by "industrial fair play" when it neglected to tell a worker it would seek to slash his redundancy payment if he didn't accept an alternative role.



Unions back 20 years' jail for industrial deaths

The ACTU's triennial Congress has endorsed a proposal for state and federal governments to enact industrial manslaughter laws, after maritime union leader Chris Cain told delegates that employers who recklessly kill workers should face $20 million fines and 20 years behind bars.


New headcount policy lops 20% from union's membership

The AWU is seeking to change the rules governing the way it counts members after belatedly lodging membership figures of 69,786 as of December 2017 – a drop of 17,420, or 20%, from the figure reported a year earlier – following an external audit conducted at the urging of the ROC.


Finding upended by misapplied "decision rule": Bench

An FWC full bench has heaped more dirt on the grave of recently upended "decision rule", finding that a member erred in relying on the superseded authority to reject a tram driver's late dismissal application.



Re-write rules for $800 living wage: McManus

Changes to the rules for setting the minimum wage would lift it beyond $800 a week, under a proposal fleshed out today by ACTU secretary Sally McManus.


FWC explores 'interim' award powers

The FWC has called for submissions on whether it has the power to make an interim award, as it seeks to expedite hearings into what Norfolk Island businesses argue is their "uncontroversially special" circumstance.


PC slammed for ignoring women's plight in super review

The Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union has slammed the Productivity Commission's omission of women in its draft report on the efficiency of the superannuation system, insisting it had "plenty of scope" to address a gender gap in which women retire with about half the savings of men.


Qantas court decision "raises bar" on entry rights: Union

The Federal Court has upheld Qantas' right to refuse access to documents sought over a "leave burn" program for aircraft engineers, in a decision a union leader says raises the bar for entering workplaces to prove breaches.


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