The FWC has increased casual retail workers' penalty rates for weekday evening shifts and Saturdays but cut the rates for Sunday shiftworkers in a decision welcomed by unions but described by employers as "disappointing".
An FWC full bench has quashed a deal after accepting CFMMEU submissions that it would have allowed workers to be covered by future agreements ahead of its nominal expiry date, but has stopped short of finding that the tribunal should have heard from the union at first instance.
Engineers and scientists are planning to join air traffic and administrative employees for a month of protected action at Airservices Australia in October, with the unions claiming the public sector bargaining policy forces workers to take industrial action just to retain existing conditions.
AustralianSuper has defended its dismissal of a senior investment executive who claimed he was targeted for raising conflict-of-interest concerns, countering that it was his "us versus them mentality" that led to his demise.
Victoria University is trying to head off an NTEU bid for a protected action ballot order, after professional and academic staff voted down by 77% a deal labelled "one of the worst proposals" tabled in the latest tertiary education bargaining round.
Unions and business groups have welcomed the FWC's approach in drafting a model award term that requires employers to genuinely try to reach agreement on requests for flexible work arrangements and provide detailed reasons for refusals, while stopping short of handing workers an unfettered right.
Consultations begin for sexual harassment inquiry; ACTU hoping for "record numbers" at Melbourne rally; Diabetic fails in direct discrimination claim; FWC president to conduct mock hearing; and Walk to work and ride to work days looming.
A Unions NSW High Court challenge to restrictions on spending by "third-party campaigners" in State election campaigns has won an expedited hearing on December 4.
